The United States will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the UN agreement that establishes international climate negotiations (UNFCCC \u2013 the framework of the 2015 Paris Agreement).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 organizations, agencies, and commissions. He tasked his administration with reviewing U.S. participation in and funding of all international organizations, including those affiliated with the United Nations, according to a statement from the White House posted on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the targets are UN-linked agencies, commissions, and advisory panels focused on climate, labor, and other issues that the Trump administration has categorized as population diversity (diversity) issues and initiatives related to raising awareness of various forms of discrimination, according to a partial list obtained by AP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Trump administration has determined that these institutions are redundant in scope, poorly managed, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly led, captured by the interests of actors promoting agendas contrary to ours, or pose a threat to the sovereignty, freedoms, and overall prosperity of our nation,\u201d the State Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s decision for the U.S. to leave organizations that encourage cooperation among countries in addressing global challenges comes at a time when his administration has launched military efforts or issued threats that have unsettled both allies and adversaries, including tightening pressure on Venezuela\u2019s autocratic leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and hinting at an intention to take Greenland from Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The administration previously suspended support for the World Health Organization, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), the UN Human Rights Council, and the UN cultural agency UNESCO, as Washington adopted a broader, \u201c\u00e0 la carte\u201d approach to paying its dues to the world body\u2014choosing which operations and agencies it believes align with Trump\u2019s agenda and which no longer serve U.S. interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think this is the crystallization of the American approach to multilateralism, which is \u2018it\u2019s either my way or the highway,\u2019\u201d said Daniel Forti, head of UN affairs at the International Crisis Group. \u201cIt\u2019s a very clear vision of a desire for international cooperation on Washington\u2019s terms,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n