Topics: Donald Trump, Politics, US News, Climate Change, World News
US President Donald Trump announced that he has removed the United States from dozens of international and United Nations entities in a shock move.
It's been a busy 12 months for Trump, who has been on a constant path to making ‘America Great Again’ via the use of imposing more regulations on medications and drugs, immigration, and its working relationship with other nations.
Within this spec comes his decision to cut ties with 35 non-UN groups and 31 UN entities, including a UN body promoting gender equality, as well as a climate change deal.
The news comes after the US was absent from the UN international climate summit last year, making it the first time they didn’t show in three decades.
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The US is also set to stop UN Women, the U.N. Population Fund (the international body’s agency for family planning and maternal and child health), and more.
"For United Nations entities, withdrawal means ceasing participation in or funding to those entities to the extent permitted by law," read the memo announcing the departure.
However, this isn’t an out-of-character move.
Trump has long slashed funding for the United Nations and announced plans to quit the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement when he first took Office in 2016.
But this time, he’s including bodies like the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, the International Energy Forum, the U.N. Register of Conventional Arms and the U.N. Peacebuilding Commission in his plans.
This is because the White House claim they promote ‘radical climate policies, global governance, and ideological programs that conflict with U.S. sovereignty and economic strength’.
"These withdrawals will end American taxpayer funding and involvement in entities that advance globalist agendas over U.S. priorities, or that address important issues inefficiently or ineffectively such that U.S. taxpayer dollars are best allocated in other ways to support the relevant missions," the White House said in a statement, per The Independent.
Here is the list of the non-U. N. organisations the US will no longer work with:
— 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact
— Colombo Plan Council
— Commission for Environmental Cooperation
— Education Cannot Wait
— European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
— Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories
— Freedom Online Coalition
— Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund
— Global Counterterrorism Forum
— Global Forum on Cyber Expertise
— Global Forum on Migration and Development
— Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
— Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development
— Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
— Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
— International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
— International Cotton Advisory Committee
— International Development Law Organization
— International Energy Forum
— International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
— International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
— International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
— International Lead and Zinc Study Group
— International Renewable Energy Agency
— International Solar Alliance
— International Tropical Timber Organization
— International Union for Conservation of Nature
— Pan American Institute of Geography and History
— Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation
— Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia
— Regional Cooperation Council
— Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century
— Science and Technology Center in Ukraine
— Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
— Venice Commission of the Council of Europe
The United Nations organisations:
— Department of Economic and Social Affairs
— U.N. Economic and Social Council, or ECOSOC — Economic Commission for Africa
— ECOSOC — Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
— ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
— ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
— International Law Commission
— International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
— International Trade Centre
— Office of the Special Adviser on Africa
— Office of the Special Representative of the secretary-general for Children in Armed Conflict
— Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
— Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children
— Peacebuilding Commission
— Peacebuilding Fund
— Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
— U.N. Alliance of Civilizations
— U.N. Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries
— U.N. Conference on Trade and Development
— U.N. Democracy Fund
— U.N. Energy
— U.N. Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
— U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
— U.N. Human Settlements Programme
— U.N. Institute for Training and Research
— U.N. Oceans
— U.N. Population Fund
— U.N. Register of Conventional Arms
— U.N. System Chief Executives Board for Coordination
— U.N. System Staff College
— U.N. Water
— U.N. University
