Multiple sources have been told by Fox News Digital da Un -Divine Department of Global Communication can be a target of reforms and even reduction of financing, as it is often clashing with the USA and Israel.
Reform calls come a month after President Donald Trump He signed an executive command that requires an inspection of the UN financing that time, Trump said that the world body “has a huge potential”, but “not well launched”.
Last week, United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, warned of a reduction in spending on the UN, stating that “passing with a recent reduction of funds will make the world less healthy, less safe and less prosperous.”
So far, Trump has stopped the new financing of the United Nations to help and work on Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) and withdrew the United States from the UN Human Rights Council. On February 27, the United States also abolished $ 377 million in grants of the United Nations Fund, which offers sexual and reproductive health services in 150 countries.
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File: US President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly during his first term of term September 24, 2019 in New York. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Almost 700 UN Media GRANCH employees are tasked with “use the power of communication to tell the United Nations story to a global audience in multiple languages and platforms to mobilize the action in support of The agenda of the United Nations. “
Anne Bayefsky, director of the Human Rights Institute and Holocaust and President of Human Rights Votes, told Fox News Digital that, through the Department, “the US taxpayer pays the UN to hire media experts and work for the purpose of breaking anti-American and anti-Semitic trash around the world.”
Asked if the financing of the Global Communication Department serves US interests, the UN spokesman told Fox News Digital to perform media information, acts as Newswire, and hosts Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
Many of the staff of the Global Communication Department, the spokesman explained, “is based on the 59 IT Centers of the UN around the world, who communicate about the UN -collective will of their Member States in local languages, closer to the people whom the UN serves.”
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a meeting of the Security Council at the United Nations headquarters, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, file)
Former member of the US delegation to UN Hugh Dugan told Fox News Digital that the need to use information centers “to lobby their members at their level in their countries tells me a deep state.” In addition to US public support for the UN fall, Dugan said that the Global Communication Department “more than failure in its own backyard in the most serious country because of its future.”
Pew research center They found that 52% of Americans have a favorable UN perspective since April 2024, which is less than 57% in 2023.
Fox News Digital was asked by the Secretary General for the Global Communication of Melissa Fleming whether the Global Communication Department was involved in control of communication for additional UN entities.
Fleming said her department “has no supervision, but convens regular meetings of coordination with communication colleagues from the entire UN system to discuss crisis situations and content plans.” Fleming also confirmed that the Global Communication Department is in charge of the account of the main social media media.
The UN -Ai Flags are flying in front of the United Nations headquarters on the eve of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 15, 2023. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
Hillel Neuer, UN Watch Executive Director, told Fox News Digital that “in the sense of his regular communications, whether it is a secretary general, or various UN accounts on social networks, routinely participate in anti-American and anti-Israeli, and you could say, to the extent that he demonizes Jewish people.”
US Ambassador Designed in UN Elise Stefanik He recently tvit that “the days of encouraging organizations in the United Nations that have contrary to our interests have long gone through. We will no longer finance terrorism, anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli hatred.” Stefanik spoke at the Adl Summit “never now”.
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The UN vehicle enters UNRWA offices in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, April 2, 2024. (Photo Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS)
Fox News Digital has found more twitter from the UN Twitter account promoting a one-sided narrative of the conflict of Israel-Gaze. They include A 29. January Tweet In support of the UN for help and work Administration for Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East, which says “Israeli legislation imposes huge limitations for the UNRWA business business” but does not notice why Israel banned Unrwa -in business and an increasing number The countries withdrew funding from organization related to terrorism.
Tweet World Health Organization 27. December Retweete the United Nations He said the attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital was part of the “systematic dismantling of the health care system in Gaza”, but did not mention that the Israeli defense forces entered the institution to capture more Hamas and Islamic jihad members, including the director, who were stored in hospital weapons, as a terror of the group during the war.
Spokespersons of the American State Department, US mission in the UN -UI United Nations were unable to provide Fox News Digital figures with information about what the percentage of budget for global communication more than $ 117.9 million included the US
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In 2022, an American contribution of $ 18.1 billion covered 30% of the total budget of the organization. By 2024 US UN contributions were on 22% for generals Budget and 27% for the peace budget. UN reports that more than 40% of humanitarian aid they donated to 2024
The State Department spokesman did not answer direct questions about whether the financing of the Ministry of Global Communication served US interests, but explained that the 90-day period of inspected installed by the executive order of January 20th “The measure set for us to reconcile his current work with the American first day. the obligor.
