Posted on 08/24/2018 5:58:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
National Security Advisor John Bolton on Thursday reaffirmed that the administration’s withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council is being accompanied by an end to U.S. funding for the world body’s human rights office. U.S. taxpayers have long paid the largest share.
Bolton told the Associated Press in Geneva that the U.S. will defund the HRC and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), by reducing by the relevant amount the sum that it pays into the regular U.N. operating budget.
CNSNews.com reported on the defunding decision in June, on the same day Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley announced President Trump’s decision to exit the HRC. […]
Apart from paying more than one-fifth of the regular U.N. budget, the U.S. has also traditionally topped the list of countries when it comes to the amount of those voluntary contributions. […]
Welcoming Bolton’s comments Thursday, Israel’s public security and strategic affairs minister Gilad Erdan tweeted, “Those who agree that the U.N. should focus on exposing the world’s worst human rights violators, rather than on obsessively attacking the MidEast’s one true democracy, will applaud [Trump] and [Bolton’s] decision to defund [OHCHR and HRC]. Those who disagree, well …” …
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Get us out of UNESCO again too while you’re at it.
GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N., AND GET THE U.N. OUT OF THE U.S., ALREADY!
WIN!
Please tell us how much money is involved here-—so we can ask Trump to put that $$$$ towards The Wall.
Turn the UN building into apartments for wounded Veterans.
Loving it!
This is wise and long overdue. The office has been a playground (at mostly our expense) for bigoted, useless despots and dictators for a long time.
Go ask South Africa to pony up some of the $$$$ they are not gonna get back from all the white farmers they are running out of the country.
We are through with this idiocy.
Bravo! Thanks Olog-hai.
It’s a win.
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