Trump Pulls The U.S. Out of UN Human Rights Council, Cancels Funding to UNRWA
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Tuesday withdrawing the U.S. from the UN Human Rights Council and UNRWA, the refugee agency that works primarily with the Palestinians. Trump signed the order ahead of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and later added in his remarks that the Palestinians in Gaza should leave the territory.
Trump’s aide introduced the measures, saying, “Next up, in light of numerous actions taken by a number of bodies of the United Nations which exhibited deep anti-American bias, we have an executive order prepared for your attention that would withdraw the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council. I would withdraw the United States from the UNRWA, which is a refugee organization, and would also review American involvement in UNESCO, which also exhibited anti-American bias.”
“More generally, the executive order calls for a review of American involvement and funding in the UN in light of the wild disparities in levels of funding among different countries that, as you’ve expressed previously, is deeply unfair to the United States,” the aide concluded before giving the order to Trump to sign.
Trump then addressed the press and said, “So I’ve always felt that the UN has tremendous potential. It’s not living up to that potential right now. It really isn’t and has been for a long time. It has– there are great hopes for it, but it’s not being well run, to be honest, and not doing the job. A lot of these conflicts that we’re working on should be settled, or at least we should have some help in settling them.”
“But we never seem to get help. That should be the primary purpose of the UN and the United Nations. And again, it’s got great potential. And based on the potential, we’ll continue to go along with it. But they’ve got to get their act together,” he added.
“What would they need to do to get their act together?” asked a reporter.
“Well, they’ve got to be fair to countries that deserve fairness. They have some countries, as you know, that are outliers that are very bad, and they’re being almost preferred as countries to those that do their job and are doing a good job. And they have to really they’re going to end up losing a lot of countries and end up losing their credibility like other organizations,” Trump replied, adding:
And then they’re going to be nothing. The potential of the United Nations and not everybody agrees with me on this. The potential of the United Nations is fantastic, if properly run. So we’ll see what happens. How much money you might take away from that. Well, we’ll take it away a little bit, but we’re not looking to take away money.
This is so important that we’re really as you know, the United Nations is largely funded by us. And it shouldn’t be it should be funded by everybody. But we’re disproportionate, as we always seem to be. But it’s something that haven’t ever lived up to the potential. In ten minutes, it would make up the difference. That’s the kind of power it could have. Right now, it doesn’t have that power.
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