Guardian:

Britain will not join Donald Trump’s “board of peace” on Thursday, Yvette Cooper has said, citing concerns about Russian involvement.

The foreign secretary said the UK strongly supported the US president’s 20-point plan for peace in Gaza as he seeks to draw attention to it at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday.

Trump’s “board of peace”, was set up last week with the stated intention that it would oversee a ceasefire and reconstruction in Gaza, but critics argue it is a Trumpian alternative to the UN and will undermine existing international bodies. The charter proposed by the White House does not mention the Palestinian territory.

Pressed on whether the UK would join the ”board of peace”, Cooper told BBC Breakfast that Britain “won’t be one of the signatories” on Thursday.

“There’s a huge amount of work to do. We won’t be one of the signatories today,” she said. “Because this is about a legal treaty that raises much broader issues, and we do also have concerns about President Putin being part of something which is talking about peace, when we have still not seen any signs from Putin that there will be a commitment to peace in Ukraine.