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Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-883643
Making Sense of Trump's Board of Peace Appointments
(Jerusalem Post) Seth J. Frantzman - The White House listed appointments to the Gaza Board of Peace (BoP) on Friday. The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), the Palestinian technocratic committee, led by Dr. Ali Shaath, has also been announced. President Trump chairs BoP, while Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, who was previously a UN envoy to the Middle East, is director-general. To support Mladenov, a Gaza Executive Board (GEB) is being created. This entity includes Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Qatari diplomat Ali Al-Thawadi, and Egyptian Maj.-Gen. Hassan Rashad, as well as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio; U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff; Jared Kushner, who played a key role in the Abraham Accords; and former UK prime minister Tony Blair.