The United Nations, in response to the finance cut of the United States to the World Organization, will start cutting its peacekeeping force and operations over the next few months, a report states. According to a senior UN official, the move is expected to affect thousands of soldiers and police staff in a distant countries that will be instructed to evacuate it. The unnamed official quoted by the Associated Press told reporters on Wednesday that the move came as a result of his biggest donor, which implements changes in accordance with the first time by President Donald Trump. The 25% labor force affected. The UN discharge will affect about 25 percent of its global workforce, the senior official said. This means that about 13,000 to 14,000 military and police staff from more than 50,000 peacekeepers deployed over nine global missions will be asked to go home. The UN office in Somalia will also be affected due to the US budget cuts. This comes because the world body plans to reduce about 15 percent of the $ 5.4 billion peacekeeping power for next year. The cutting of the budget will affect all areas of their work, the senior official warned, including operations and staff – both civil and uniform. It is unclear when and how the civilian staff will be affected, but the official said it would be significant. Countries where the UN Peace Division leads missions include Congo, the Central African Republic, Southern Sudan, Lebanon, Cyprus and Kosovo. Why does the US cut the UN budget? Donald Trump administration officials have argued over the past few weeks that UN’s budget and agencies are bloated and redundant, saying that they will not make a further voluntary or involuntary contributions before the US government department evaluated the effectiveness of each UN agency and program. The US Ambassador of the Un Mike Waltz said in a TV interview last week that the US was focused on “getting the UN back to the basics of promoting peace, enforcing peace, the prevention of wars.” He added, “We have to cut out all this other nonsense.” The decision to review the distinctive blue berets or wearing the helmets comes in the midst of this situation and to a meeting between UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and representatives of donor countries, including Waltz. UN Peace Operations have grown dramatically. At the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, there were 11,000 UN peacekeepers. In 2014, there were 130,000 in 16 distant peace operations. About 52,000 men and women today serve in 11 conflict areas in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Contributions from the US and China form half of the UN peace budget.
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