Trump Issues Executive Order to Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council and Palestinian Relief Agency

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the 4th (local time) to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

According to The New York Times (NYT) and the British daily The Guardian, President Trump told reporters at the White House on the day, "I have always felt that the United Nations has tremendous potential, but right now it is not living up to that potential."

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The executive order signed by President Trump on the day mandates the United States to withdraw from various UN organizations, including the United Nations Human Rights Council, and to comprehensively review U.S. budget support for international organizations. It also directs the U.S. to withdraw from UNRWA and to reconsider participation in UNESCO.

During his first term in 2018, President Trump cut funding to UNRWA and withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council. Subsequently, former President Joe Biden resumed participation.

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