The United States would drastically reduce its diplomatic footprint in Africa and also disburse the offices of the State Department that deal with climate change, democracy and human rights, according to an order of the White House under consideration.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said The New York Timesthat for the first time reported the existence of the draft order, had fallen “victim of another deception.” “These are false news,” Rubio published on X on Sunday.
However, a copy of the draft of the executive order seen by AFP Ask for “complete structural reorganization” of the State Department before October 1 of this year.
The objective, says the draft of the order, is to “rationalize the delivery of missions, project the American force abroad, reduce waste, fraud, abuse and align the department with a strategic doctrine of the United States.”
The greatest change would be to organize the diplomatic efforts of the United States in four regions: Eurasia, Middle East, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
The current African office would be eliminated. Instead it would be a “Special Envoy Office for African Affairs” that informs the National Internal Security Council of the White House, instead of the State Department.
“All non -essential embassies and consulates in sub -Saharan Africa will be closed,” says the draft of the order, with all the remaining consolidated missions under a special envoy, “using implementations aimed at the mission.”
The draft of the executive order obtained by AFP It has not been publicly discussed by officials. However, it occurs in the midst of a burst of movements of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to reduce soft power initiatives of the United States and question long -standing alliances, even with NATO.
The last discussion proposal follows the American media of another proposed plan under which the State Department would see its entire budget reduced by half. In the last draft of the plan, the current offices that deal with climate change and human rights would be “eliminated.”
The American footprint in Canada, a Washington key ally that Trump has suggested repeatedly should be attached and becoming a state 51, would see a “significantly reduced team.” The Embassy in Ottawa “would be significantly low.”
