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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Secretary General Antonio Guterres is slashing more than $700 million in spending and laying plans to overhaul the United Nations as its largest sponsor, the US, pulls back support.<\/p>\n

Guterres\u2019s plan calls for 20% cuts in expenditures and employment, which would bring its budget, now $3.7 billion, to the lowest since 2018. About 3,000 jobs would be cut.<\/p>\n

Officially, the reform program is pegged to the UN\u2019s 80th anniversary, not the new US administration. But the scale of the reductions reflects the threat to US support, which traditionally accounts for 22% of the organization\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has suspended that funding and pulled out of several UN bodies already, with a broader review expected to lead to further cuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to be part of organizations that pursue policies that hamper the United States,\u201d Deputy State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n

The planned cuts at the UN come as the Trump administration has eliminated tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid as part of its drive to focus on what it sees as US interests. Conflicts from the Mideast to Ukraine and Africa have added to the need for global assistance.<\/p>\n

After years of financial struggles, the UN under Guterres already was planning to make sweeping structural changes. He warned in January it was facing \u201ca full-blown liquidity crisis.\u201d Overall, spending across the UN system is expected to fall to the lowest level in about a decade \u2013 down as much as $20 billion from its high in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cUN 80 is in large part a reaction from the Secretary General to the kind of challenges posed by the second Trump administration,\u201d said Eugene Chen, senior fellow at New York University\u2019s Center on International Cooperation.<\/p>\n

Guterres is expected to release details of his overhaul plans in a budget in September. The plan calls for restructuring many of its programs.<\/p>\n

Guterres controls the UN\u2019s regular budget, which is only a fraction of the total expenditures of its affiliates. Facing funding shortages of their own, agencies like UNICEF and UNESCO are also planning major cutbacks.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration already has stopped funds from going into the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council and left UNESCO.<\/p>\n

Guterres\u2019 plan has also drawn criticism, both from Trump allies and inside the UN.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some things that the UN does that arguably should be increased in terms of resources,\u201d said Brett Schaefer, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. \u201cAnd then there are some things that the UN shouldn\u2019t be decreasing but eliminating altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n

He cited the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog and the World Food Program as contributing significantly to US interests and singled out the Food and Agriculture Organization and Human Rights Council as having mandates at odds with American policy.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, UN staff in Geneva announced last week they passed a motion of no confidence in Guterres and the plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cStaff felt its slash and burn approach lacked focus, had no strategic purpose, and was making the UN more top-heavy and bloated,\u201d Ian Richards, president of the UN Staff Union in Geneva, posted on LinkedIn about the UN 80 report.<\/p>\n

That vote has largely symbolic importance, according to NYU\u2019s Chen.<\/p>\n

Still, Guterres\u2019 efforts to get ahead of the inevitable cuts that reductions in US support will bring could help the UN adapt, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe that\u2019s a silver lining,\u201d Chen said. \u201cWe\u2019ll all be primed for reform.\u201d<\/p>\n

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