UN Funding And Participation To Be Slashed Under Trump Executive Order

I would have posted this earlier but I had to have a cigarette and sponge off after reading it:

The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States’ role in the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process to review and potentially abrogate certain forms of multilateral treaties, officials said.

The first of the two draft orders, titled “Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organizations” and obtained by The New York Times, calls for terminating funding for any United Nations agency or other international body that meets any one of several criteria.

Those criteria include organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization, or support programs that fund abortion or any activity that circumvents sanctions against Iran or North Korea. The draft order also calls for terminating funding for any organization that “is controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism” or is blamed for the persecution of marginalized groups or any other systematic violation of human rights.

The order calls for then enacting “at least a 40 percent overall decrease” in remaining United States funding toward international organizations.

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The second executive order, “Moratorium on New Multilateral Treaties,” calls for a review of all current and pending treaties with more than one other nation. It asks for recommendations on which negotiations or treaties the United States should leave.

The order says this review applies only to multilateral treaties that are not “directly related to national security, extradition or international trade,” but it is unclear what falls outside these restrictions.

For example, the Paris climate agreement or other environmental treaties deal with trade issues but could potentially fall under this order.

An explanatory statement that accompanies the draft order mentions two United Nations treaties for review: the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

And we have PANIC:

Trump executive order, cutting billions in UN funding, singles out peacekeeping, International Criminal Court, UNFPA https://t.co/l7HNWlqBUk

— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) January 25, 2017

This is really awesome. So many of the international groups that work to injure the United States and to work against democracy and human rights are totally dependent upon funding provided by the United States. This is especially true of the multitude of rogue UN spinoffs that have adopted hatred of Israel as a core principle. He is also right to cast a chary eye upon these multilateral treaties that try to impose foreign social values upon the United States via seemingly innocuous treaties (who can be against a “Convention on the Rights of the Child,” if you want to homeschool your kid or teach religion to them, you should be) that we go along with because that is how we’ve rolled for decades.

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