The president of the United States, Republican Donald Trump, signed on Tuesday (04.02.2025) an executive order to end the participation of the United States in the United Nations Human Rights Council and continue with the suspension of funds for the agency of the UN for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
“I have always felt that the UN has enormous potential, but it is not complying with it at this time. For a long time it has been ineffective. There are great hopes in it, but, to be honest, it is not well managed,” Trump told Trump The press at the White House. He then signed the executive orders and said that the UNRWA and the Human Rights Council must “order their affairs.”
“They have to be fair to those countries that deserve justice,” he added, without making more references. In a statement released before the firm, the White House said that the UN Human Rights Council “has demonstrated a constant bias against Israel” and has allowed countries like Iran, China and Cuba to use it to “protect themselves Despite his serious violations and abuses against human rights. “
CESA HELP TO HAITI
During his first term (2017-2021), Trump has already retired to the US of the UN Human Rights Council, an organ of which he is not a member but observer. Washington returned to this organism shortly after the arrival of Joe Biden to the White House in January 2021. In his first term, Trump also suspended financing to UNRWA, demanding the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations with Israel.
In addition, the United States Government has ordered “Cesar immediately” its contribution to the multinational security mission for Haiti, the police support force led by Kenya and does not end up being formed due to lack of financing. The spokesman for the UN General Secretariat, Stéphane Dujarric, said they were notified of the measure by the Donald Trump government.
Dujarric specified that the United States had committed $ 15 million for the fund that will finance that mission, of which only 1.7 million have spent, and the rest of the money (13.3 million), despite being compromised, “remains now frozen. “
DZC (EFE, AFP)
