EU leader says Trump is ‘destroying world order’ after leaving ‘woke’ UN agreements
The USA is no longer a part of dozens of international organisations focused on climate, women’s rights and other initiatives.
The Trump administration announced it wouldn’t take part in the UN’s population agency, international climate negotiations, UN Women and other organisations.
Many of the targets are UN-related agencies that focus on issues the Trump administration has categorised as catering to diversity and ‘woke’ intiatives’.
Other non-UN organisations on the list include the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and the Global Counterterrorism Forum.
The move has been slammed by international leaders, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying the US is ‘breaking free from international rules’ and ‘gradually turning away’ from some of its allies.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier went further, saying America was destroying the world order.
‘Then there is the breakdown of values by our most important partner, the USA, which helped build this world order,’ he said.
‘It is about preventing the world from turning into a den of robbers, where the most unscrupulous take whatever they want, where regions or entire countries are treated as the property of a few great powers.’
In the executive order signed by Trump, posted on the White House website, it reads: ‘After deliberating with my Cabinet, have determined that it is contrary to the interests of the United States to remain a member of, participate in, or otherwise provide support to these organisations.’
This July, Trump pulled the US out of UNESCO over its support for what he calls ‘woke causes’.
The State Department accused UNESCO of having ‘a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy’.
The department’s spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce, said that ‘continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States’.
