18 June 2026,   22:38
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The US Department of State will lead efforts to wind down costly and ineffective peacekeeping and special political missions around the world - Agency Strategic Plan

The US Department of State publishes the “Agency Strategic Plan Fiscal Years 2026-2030 U.S. DEPARTMENT of STATE”

“The Department will no longer fund or support international organizations or conventions that act contrary to America’s interests or that erode our sovereignty. We will no longer defer to unelected international bureaucrats who run them. We will not permit international organizations to become weapons in the hands of our adversaries, deployed to target Americans and citizens of partner nations such as Israel. Instead, we will focus on increasing American influence and driving reform in organizations whose work affects our concrete national interests, particularly the standard-setting bodies, while imposing real accountability on those who threaten Americans, our national interests, or those of our allies. America’s adversaries use international organizations to undermine and reshape the global order or to extract funding that is used against our interests. We, in turn, will use American leadership to return useful bodies to their original purposes, i.e., to build coalitions which clearly and concretely serve to advance our national interests.

Specifically, there is need for renewed focus at the UN, which has strayed far from its purpose of solving international disputes peacefully. We will push back on the UN’s 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which advance a program of soft global governance inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans.

We will seek to block resolutions that undermine U.S. interests or those of our allies, withhold or condition funding to promote reforms, and promote U.S.-led peace processes. Additionally, the Department will lead efforts to wind down costly and ineffective peacekeeping and special political missions around the world. Declarations of international bodies inconsistent with U.S. sovereign law cannot and will not constrain our decision making. We will respond sternly, using the full array of diplomatic and economic tools at our disposal, to such attempts to limit us”, - reads the plan.

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