UN secretary general says he’s cooperating with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza but doesn’t want it in Hormuz – POLITICO

BRUSSELS — United Nations Secretary General António Guterres is defending the U.N.’s role as the world’s multilateral organization for responding in times of crisis, but acknowledges he is cooperating “actively” with President Donald Trump’s rival Board of Peace in Gaza — even though Guterres brands the board “a personal project” of the U.S. president.

In an exclusive interview with POLITICO this week, Guterres said he welcomed the Board’s aim of funding and delivering the basics of a Gaza reconstruction plan to rebuild Palestinian homes and infrastructure. “There is an objective there that was defined, approved by the Security Council, and we are cooperating actively with structures created by the Board of Peace,” Guterres said. 

But he questioned the wider ambitions of the organization, which Trump described as an alternative to “failed” international institutions when he launched it in September 2025, declaring himself chairman for life of what he asserted could “prove to be the most consequential international body in history.”