The United States has announced the withdrawal from sixty-six international organizations identified as part of the Donald Trump Administration’s review of wasteful, ineffective, and harmful international organizations.
In a statement released from the State Department on Wednesday revealed that the President signed an Executive Order to withdraw from these organizations after review, adding that more still ongoing.
Accordingly, the Trump’s administration found these institutions to be redundant in scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by interest of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to the US own, or a threat to the nation’s sovereignty, freedoms, and general prosperity.
As such, the United States will be withdrawing from these 66 organizations which includes: (i) 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact; (ii) Colombo Plan Council; (iii) Commission for Environmental Cooperation;
(iv) Education Cannot Wait; (v) European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats; (vi) Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories; (vii) Freedom Online Coalition; (viii) Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund;
(ix) Global Counterterrorism Forum; (x) Global Forum on Cyber Expertise; (xi) Global Forum on Migration and Development; (xii) Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research; (xiii) Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;
(xiv) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; (xv) Intergovernmental Science -Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; (xvi) International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;
(xvii) International Cotton Advisory Committee; (xviii) International Development Law Organization; (xix) International Energy Forum;(xx) International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies;
(xxi) International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance; (xxii) International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law; (xxiii) International Lead and Zinc Study Group;
(xxiv) International Renewable Energy Agency; (xxv) International Solar Alliance;
(xxvi) International Tropical Timber Organization; (xxvii) International Union for Conservation of Nature;
(xxviii) Pan American Institute of Geography and History; (xxix) Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation; (xxx) Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combatting Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia;
(xxxi) Regional Cooperation Council; (xxxii) Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century; (xxxiii) Science and Technology Center in Ukraine; (xxxiv) Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme; (xxxv) Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.(b) United Nations (UN) Organizations: (i) Department of Economic and Social Affairs; (ii) UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) — Economic Commission for Africa;
(iii) ECOSOC — Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; (iv) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific;(v) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia;
(vi) International Law Commission; (vii) International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals; (viii) International Trade Centre; (ix) Office of the Special Adviser on Africa;(x) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict; (xi) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict;
(xii) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children; (xiii) Peacebuilding Commission; (xiv) Peacebuilding Fund; (xv) Permanent Forum on People of African Descent;
(xvi) UN Alliance of Civilizations; (xvii) UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;(xviii) UN Conference on Trade and Development; (xix) UN Democracy Fund;(xx) UN Energy; (xxi) UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women; (xxii) UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; (xxiii) UN Human Settlements Programme;
(xxiv) UN Institute for Training and Research; (xxv) UN Oceans; (xxvi) UN Population Fund; (xxvii) UN Register of Conventional Arms; (xxviii) UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination; (xxix) UN System Staff College; (xxx) UN Water; and (xxxi) UN University.
The statement added that Trump made it clear that it is no longer acceptable to be sending these institutions blood, sweat, with little to nothing to show for it, saying the days of billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing to foreign interests at the expense of American people are over. According to the statement, As this list begins to demonstrate, what started as a pragmatic framework of international organizations for peace and cooperation has morphed into sprawling architecture of global governance, often dominated by progressive ideology and detached from national interests.
From DEI mandates to “gender equity” campaigns to climate orthodoxy, many international organizations now serve a globalist project rooted in the discredited fantasy of the “End of History.”
These organizations actively seek to constrain American sovereignty. Their work is advanced by the same elite networks—the multilateral “NGO-plex”— that we have begun dismantling through the closure of USAID.
“We will not continue expending resources, diplomatic capital, and the legitimizing weight of our participation in institutions that are irrelevant to or in conflict with our interests. We reject inertia and ideology in favor of prudence and purpose. We seek cooperation where it serves our people and will stand firm where it does not”.
