The US defends leaving UN Women for “not even being able to define what a woman is”

The American Secretary of State, This Saturday he proclaimed the “end of the international system” to which he has blamed defects such as “waste” or “inefficiency” and has thus defended the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organizations ordered by the American president, Donald Trump.

“Leadership involves difficult choices and the ability to recognize when institutions created to promote peace, prosperity and freedom become obstacles to those goals. What we call the international system has been overwhelmed by hundreds of opaque international organizations, many of them with overlapping powers, duplication of actions and ineffective results and questionable economic and ethical management,” Rubio said in a statement published by the State Department.

Rubio has stressed that With the withdrawal of these 66 organizations, the review of the participation of the United States in international organizations does not end. “That does not imply that the United States is turning its back on the world. We simply reject an obsolete model of multilateralism,” he noted.

He thus considers that the international model has “failed“and it is “impossible to reform.” “Even those that previously performed useful functions have become instruments contrary to the interests of our nation,” he argued.

“These organizations not only do not obtain results, but they obstruct the action of those who want to face these problems. The era of blank checks for international bureaucracy is over,” he stressed.

Rubio has given as examples of mismanagement the UN Population Fund and its “long history of ethical violations such as forced abortions,” for “not even being able to define what a woman is”, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change for spending millions on “alarmist investments” or the UN Permanent Forum on African Americans for its “overtly racist policies in support of global reparations”.