Croatia will not join US President Donald Trump’s Peace Council. This was stated by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovič on Wednesday, but he did not disclose specific reasons, writes TASR according to the AFP agency.
“After careful analysis, the government’s position … is that at this time Croatia would not join the Peace Council for a number of reasons,” Plenkovič told reporters. He stated that he would explain the reasons in more detail later.
A few days ago, Croatia confirmed that, as a member state of the European Union, it had been invited to join Trump’s new international institution. Plenkovič said that Croatia is waiting for the EU to harmonize its views, and at the same time, it “assesses the legal and other aspects of the proposal”. On Wednesday, he spoke with President Zoran Milanović about this issue. They also discussed that the invitation should be reviewed by the National Security Council.
Last week during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, the US President established the Peace Council by signing its charter. The council has already been supported, for example, by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Argentine President Javier Milei or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Key US allies, including France and Britain, expressed doubts.
The council was originally supposed to oversee the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, but its charter does not limit its role to the Palestinian territories and it appears to want to compete with the United Nations. A permanent seat on the Peace Council is said to cost $1 billion, prompting criticism that it could become a “paid” version of the UN Security Council.
