UN Preventive Reaction to Possibility of Reducing Budget by Trump

According to RCO News Agency, the US newspaper The New York Times announced the order by UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres, after US President Donald Trump has called for a review in the US budget.

These commands are included in a 4 -page note that dates back to April 5, which was sent by the Guterres office to the heads of all institutions that report to him directly. In this note, May 5 as a deadline for submitting all budget reduction to be added to the budget document later.

The note states: “Your mission is to identify as many employees that may be transferred to the less expensive locations, or otherwise reduce or delete them if they are identified as additional posts to the organization or inefficient.”

In February, Trump signed an executive order calling for a review of all US relations with the United Nations or US budgets to the organization. Trump has so far removed Washington from several UN -affiliated institutions, including human rights, women’s rights, climate change, Palestine’s assistance and global health. Trump also reduced the US share in the UN peace budget in the first round of his presidency.

On Tuesday, three senior UN officials said the measures to reduce the cost of the note in the note surprised the UN affiliated institutions because they were expecting them. The officials, who did not disclose their names, said they mainly the Guterres order to provide the United Nations to reduce the costs that Trump potentially impose and to protect the organization against a financial blow.

According to the New York Times, however, UN officials said only one of the goals of the budget ordered by Guterres was to respond to Trump’s actions, and another motivation is to find a set of financial problems, whether or not to cut financial assistance by major donors such as the US and Europe to the crisis in the process of paying off the crisis.

Guterres announced on March 5 that the university initiative, which was nominated for the 80th anniversary of the UN founding, announced that it is the subject of measures to save money and improve efficiency throughout the organization.

“We are in a state of unpredictability and severe ignorance,” Guterres said at the time of the announcement. “Resources are falling in all areas and have been involved in this trend for a long time.”

He also said, “The decline in budgets from the United States and other countries to the United Nations has naturally forced the service provider institutions to reduce the number of their employees and their size and eliminate a large number of activities.”

UN spokesman Stephen Dujarik said the notes announced on April 7 were one of the results of the UN 6 initiative.

Richard Gwavan, director of the UN for the International Crisis Group, said although the United Nations shows such actions as internal reforms, but in reality these actions are due to the Trump administration’s pressure and concern about the government.

“The decline in the budgets that the US has announced and the dimensions and extent of these reductions have really shocked the UN,” Gwavan said in an interview. “So Guterres are honestly accelerating to adapt to a very bad situation.”

The US is the largest provider of money to the UN budget, with the US share in the organization’s budget estimates about 2 % of the total budget. The share reached about $ 1.5 billion in year 2, which was spent on administrative costs and UN peace missions. The United States also provides funding to various UN institutions in the field of humanitarian relief. In year 3, the United States provided a total of $ 5 billion in money to the United Nations and other related institutions and missions.

Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden have also recently made a sharp decline in their international aid, including the UN on the pretext of focusing their money on domestic needs and defense policies. China, another major supplier of the UN budget, has traditionally increased its donation budget to programs that are in line with its interests.

According to Gwavan, the United Nations estimates that it will be involved in a 5 % decline in the year as a result of reduced programs, which will lose billions of dollars in money.

Some institutions, including UNICEF and the UN Humanitarian Coordination Office, said that in turn and separately from Guterres’ orders, they have begun to investigate the cost.

A senior official at UNICEF said the organization predicted a 5 percent decline for the year. According to the UNICEF official, he is planning to move a significant portion of his employees from New York’s headquarters to Maqari in Valencia, Spain. He added that the purpose of the move is to ensure that any shortage of budget will have the least impact on children’s service programs.

UNICEF provides its funding through the donation money of member states, the private sector and solo donation money. The institution does not contribute to the UN’s overall budget.

Last month, even before submitting the controversial April 7, he said the UN Population Fund, which is focused on fertility and women’s health, plans to move all its activities from New York to Nairobi Kenya.

UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator Tom Fellcher told the employees under his command this month that his entity had reduced his activities in several countries, suspended recruitment, imposed travel restrictions and reduced employees by 5 %.

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