Former Trump official slams UN reform efforts as 'eight and a half years late'

FIRST ON FOX: The United Nations’ UN80 Task Force is examining aggregate suggested methods for reorganizing the institution, according to a leaked, confidential papers shared with Fox News Digital. The six-page insubstantial cites aggregate inefficiencies and areas of betterment needed to combat "geopolitical shifts and important reductions successful overseas assistance budgets" which are "challenging the legitimacy and effectiveness of the organization."

The effort is "eight and a fractional years late," Hugh Dugan, former National Security Council Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Organization Affairs, told Fox News Digital: "If [Secretary-General António] Guterres truly comprehends that the strategy needs a large overhaul, helium should measurement down and facilitate an aboriginal U.N. Secretary-General election." Dugan said that "the idiosyncratic with the caller mandate" should overhaul the U.N.

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Flags of the UN and USA alert extracurricular the United Nations office up of the 78th league of the United Nations General Assembly successful New York City connected September 15, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

The UN80 Task Force papers notes that "overlapping mandates, inefficient usage of resources, and inconsistent transportation of services" are among the problems with proliferating agencies, funds and programs, and notes ways to integrate, consolidate, and coordinate among reformed entities to maximize the payment for those who trust connected the U.N. 

As different means of reducing outlays, the task unit besides recommended reducing the quantity of high-level posts, establishing azygous entities to coordinate Peace and Security, Humanitarian Affairs, and Human Rights, and "reduc[ing] the fig of U.N. improvement strategy entities." 

Dugan said the papers "looks much similar a whiteboard watercourse of consciousness attack that you find connected the archetypal time of a concern retreat." He said that it lacks notation of quality assets improvements, uncovering ways of recruiting "the precise champion successful the world," oregon "identifying show measurements oregon metrics against the leaders of the organization, branches, [or] offices." 

Dugan said that the task unit is besides missing the important confidence-building measures needed to summation buy-in from members, to support them "impressed and enthusiastic" astir U.N. programs. "They’re assuming that they are the leaders that are the close radical astatine the close time." Dugan said this is "a existent shortcoming." 

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is shown connected the surface portion speaking astatine the opening ceremonial of the UN Internet Governance Forum - IGF 2021 astatine the International Congress Center successful Katowice, Poland, connected December 7th, 2021.  (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto)

"I don’t deliberation they person the assurance of the satellite assemblage oregon the talents oregon the resources to clasp retired different twelvemonth and a fractional nether this authorities of Secretary Guterres," Dugan said. Rather than utilize the "Noah’s Ark absorption mentality" of attempting to "weather the storm," Dugan said that the U.N. indispensable "get precise originative precise rapidly with what they person astatine hand." 

Dugan noted that the U.N. has gone done a "fall-off successful relevance" with its deficiency of engagement successful "real satellite dynamics betwixt subordinate states." He urged the enactment to place "the multilateral collateral, meaning we’ve got to place what’s good, and past we person to get escaped of what’s damaged aft 8 years."

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In effect to concerns shared by Dugan, Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, said that the memo "is the effect of an workout to make ideas and thoughts from elder officials connected however to execute the Secretary-General’s vision" and is 1 "of the 3 enactment streams that we are moving on."

Dujarric pointed to a code Guterres delivered successful March erstwhile introducing the UN80 Initiative, successful which helium called for an "ambitious betterment docket to fortify however we enactment and deliver." Guterres said this involves expanding transparency and accountability, being much effectual and cutting costs, and decentralizing decisions to service those who trust connected the U.N.

The awesome of the United Nations extracurricular the Secretariat Building astatine United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Dujarric besides mentioned a code Guterres gave 8 years agone successful September 2017, erstwhile helium lamented the Byzantine bureaucracy that hampers advancement astatine the U.N., and said that helium was "pursuing sweeping absorption betterment – to simplify procedures and decentralize decisions, with greater transparency, ratio and accountability."

For Dugan, Guterres’ nonaccomplishment to effort those "sweeping" reforms anterior to 2025 is an denotation that regime alteration is needed. He reiterated that "the Secretary-General’s ‘Trust me’ model dressing is nary longer convincing america to wage afloat retail." 

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U.S. contributions to the U.N. whitethorn besides instrumentality a hit. In April, a White House Office of Management and Budget passback to the State Department indicated the tendency to extremity backing for planetary organizations, including the U.N. 

Other countries are besides falling abbreviated with contributions. In March, Guterres’ spokesperson Farhan Haq told Fox News Digital that subordinate states’ non-payment of dues had forced the closure of 1 unit entranceway to the U.N. office successful New York City astatine the time.