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 nan institution, according to a leaked, confidential archive shared pinch 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 nan legitimacy and effectiveness of nan organization."

The effort is "eight and a half years late," Hugh Dugan, former National Security Council Special Assistant to nan President and Senior Director for International Organization Affairs, told Fox News Digital: "If [Secretary-General António] Guterres really comprehends that nan strategy needs a awesome overhaul, he should measurement down and facilitate an early U.N. Secretary-General election." Dugan said that "the personification pinch nan caller mandate" should overhaul nan U.N.

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

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

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

Dugan said nan archive "looks much for illustration a whiteboard watercourse of consciousness attack that you find connected nan first time of a business retreat." He said that it lacks mention of quality assets improvements, uncovering ways of recruiting "the very champion successful nan world," aliases "identifying capacity measurements aliases metrics against nan leaders of nan organization, branches, [or] offices." 

Dugan said that nan task unit is besides missing nan 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 nan leaders that are nan correct group astatine nan correct time." Dugan said this is "a existent shortcoming." 

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

"I don’t deliberation they person nan assurance of nan world organization aliases nan talents aliases nan resources to clasp retired different twelvemonth and a half nether this authorities of Secretary Guterres," Dugan said. Rather than utilize nan "Noah’s Ark guidance mentality" of attempting to "weather nan storm," Dugan said that nan U.N. must "get very imaginative very quickly pinch what they person astatine hand." 

Dugan noted that nan U.N. has gone done a "fall-off successful relevance" pinch its deficiency of engagement successful "real world dynamics betwixt personnel states." He urged nan statement to place "the multilateral collateral, meaning we’ve sewage to place what’s good, and past we person to get free of what’s damaged aft 8 years."

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

Dujarric pointed to a reside Guterres delivered successful March erstwhile introducing nan UN80 Initiative, successful which he called for an "ambitious betterment schedule to fortify really we activity and deliver." Guterres said this involves expanding transparency and accountability, being much effective and cutting costs, and decentralizing decisions to service those who trust connected nan U.N.

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

Dujarric besides mentioned a reside Guterres gave 8 years agone successful September 2017, erstwhile he lamented nan Byzantine bureaucracy that hampers advancement astatine nan U.N., and said that he was "pursuing sweeping guidance betterment – to simplify procedures and decentralize decisions, pinch 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 salary afloat retail." 

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U.S. contributions to nan U.N. whitethorn besides return a hit. In April, a White House Office of Management and Budget passback to nan State Department indicated nan desire to extremity backing for world organizations, including nan U.N. 

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