US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Substitution of the “Civil Safety of Civil, Democracy and Human Rights” Office is one of several conservative reforms in the State Department.
US Diplomacy Chief Marco Rubio announced Tuesday a reorganization of the State Department, providing to suppress or give new designations to human rights and war crimes in Ukraine, and implying personnel cuts.
“In its current form, the department is overdue, bureaucratic and unable to fulfill its mission Essential of diplomacy in this new age of competition between great powers, ”said Rubio, responsible for Donald Trump’s administration diplomacy.
“We are facing tremendous challenges around the world. To comply with President Trump’s ‘First’ foreign policy, we have to make the State Department Greater again,” says the note today released by Rubio’s office.
The US diplomatic apparatus has long been the target of conservatives, who defend a Most -facing administration for the defense of the country’s interests and less for the promotion of human rights or cooperation.
The reorganization announced today includes the abolition of the division to “Safety of civilians, democracy and human rights”which will be replaced by another, responsible for the “coordination of foreign aid and humanitarian affairs”.
It should absorb what is left of USAID, the development agency that for years managed a budget that represented almost half of world humanitarian aid, now dramatically cut by Trump administration.
The designation of the Global Labor Rights Protection Office was altered to defend “religious freedom”.
The proposed reorganization also eliminates a unit that documenting war crimes in Ukraine, as well as another who worked to prevent abuse.
According to Rubio, the new approach “will give power to the department from the base, from the offices to the embassies” and “the specific functions of each region will be consolidated to increase functionalityredundant offices will be eliminated and non -statutory programs that are not aligned with America’s fundamental interests will cease to exist. ”
“Under the leadership of President Trump, we have a commander in chief committed to putting America and Americans first. As his secretary of state, I am confident that a Reformed State Department It will correspond to the moment and help make our country big once again, ”he said.
Marco Rubio also indicated in X that the Number of offices in the State Department would be reduced from 734 to 602 And that the deputies of the Secretary of State would have to propose plans, within one month, to reduce by 15% the number of employees for which they are responsible.
A high state department official told the US press that the reduction of jobs would not necessarily imply dismissals and that the plan presented today would be discussed in Congress and with employees in the coming months, in order to finalize the reorganization.
