Trump to 'WITHDRAW from climate & environmental accords along with UN funding CUTS of 40%'Daily Express, Jan 26, 2017, Will Kirby
DONALD Trump is preparing executive orders which will allow him drastically reduce the role of the US in the United Nations and other international organisations as the President follows through on his policy to put ‘America first’.
Trump’s new administration are set to review US involvement in international treaties and agreements and could cut United Nations (UN) funding by 40 per cent – putting aid and peacekeeping operations across the world in jeopardy.
Speaking on Newsnight, New York Times analyst Max Fisher said the White House is mulling over two executive orders which would see a massive reduction in US involvement with international partners on a range of issues.
He said: “There are two executive orders that are in draft form that are circulating the White House now that they are currently planning to sign by the end of the week.
“The first one would review a huge subset of multilateral treaties that the United States is currently engaged in - it’s not really clear which of those treaties they have in mind but it looks like it opens up climate agreements and environmental agreements… to be abrogated.
"The second, and in some ways bigger one, is reviewing funding for the United Nations and this draft executive order, if signed, would do two things.
“First, it would terminate any US funding for any UN agency that needs a subset of conditions [including] any support for abortion programs; there are a few rules that are very vague - if it includes help for countries that opposed the United States then they would cut funding [although] no one really knows what that means.”
He continued: “But once they’ve done that, then the order would mandate a 40 per cent cut in all US funding towards the United Nations, any UN agency, or any other international organisation which would amount to billions of dollars.
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