Trump prepares orders to reduce US role in UN

Order calls for 'at least a 40% overall decrease' in US funding toward international organisations

The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States’ role in the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process to review and potentially abrogate certain forms of multilateral treaties.

The first of the two draft orders, titled “Auditing and Reducing US Funding of International Organizations” and obtained by The New York Times, calls for terminating funding for any United Nations agency or other international body that meets any one of several criteria. Those criteria include organisations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation