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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow So far only about a third of the invitees have accepted, and "expressing interest" does not mean accepting. It implies only wanting to know more about it; and Sir Mark Carney is no fool even if you might not share his political views.
That "expressding interest" is very common, even at very low levels. I recall the web-site for a very airy-fairy tourism-business proposal in my part of the world some years ago, giving a long list of parties "expressing interest". None were described as sponsors.
Countries cannot ask to join this outfit. President Trump invites countries at $1m dollars for 3 years' membership, or $1000M within the first year for theoretically up to 300 years.
The BoP's constitution's explanation of membership terms and the BoP's own "life", is curiously vague and puzzling. You pay a million dollars for
3 years but in principle your membership and even the existence of the "Board" itself are by renewable
2-year terms.
No stating if, or how, its members would be re-imbursed the balance of their "subscriptions", or how else its remaining funds would be disbursed, on dissolution - which seems a matter for its self-elected Chairman For Life.
No explaining what all that money is for, how it is paid, where it will be banked; nor how and where its Annual Accounts will be audited and published.
Its UN approval claim is disingenuous. The Security Council did not approve the "Board of Peace" as that states itself. It voted for a body trying to solve only the Israel / Palestine conflict. The "Board of Peace" has far wider ambitions and its constitution names no nation. (Apart from its gold-tinted badge, showing only the North American continent.)
If you or I were invited to pay a lot of money to join a "club" with no clear aim, methods or benefits in return, run by one man for life and his appointee committee, and with no proper accounting and dissolution regulations, we'd likely treat it as either a personality cult or nakedly mere fraud.
I can't understand Uzbekistan and Kazakhastan "joining" this outfit, as neither would obviously benefit from paying it a million US Dollars of its tax-payers' money every three years.
