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Monday, February 10, 2025 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 14199 of February 4, 2025 

Withdrawing the United States From and Ending Funding to 

Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United 

States Support to All International Organizations 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: 

Section 1. Purpose. The United States helped found the United Nations 

(UN) after World War II to prevent future global conflicts and promote 

international peace and security. But some of the UN’s agencies and bodies 

have drifted from this mission and instead act contrary to the interests 

of the United States while attacking our allies and propagating anti-Semitism. 

As in 2018, when the United States withdrew from the UN Human Rights 

Council (UNHRC), the United States will reevaluate our commitment to 

these institutions. 

Three UN organizations that deserve renewed scrutiny are the UNHRC; 

the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and 

the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 

(UNRWA). 

UNRWA has reportedly been infiltrated by members of groups long designated by the Secretary of State (Secretary) as foreign terrorist organizations, 

and UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack 

on Israel. UNHRC has protected human rights abusers by allowing them 

to use the organization to shield themselves from scrutiny, while UNESCO 

has demonstrated failure to reform itself, has continually demonstrated antiIsrael sentiment over the past decade, and has failed to address concerns 

over mounting arrears. 

Sec. 2. UNHRC and UNESCO Participation. (a) The United States will not 

participate in the UNHRC and will not seek election to that body. The 

Secretary shall terminate the office of United States Representative to the 

UNHRC and any positions primarily dedicated to supporting the United 

States Representative to the UNHRC. 

(b) The United States will also conduct a review of its membership in 

UNESCO. This review shall be led by the Secretary, in coordination with 

the United States Representative to the United Nations (UN Ambassador), 

and must be completed within 90 days of the date of this order. The 

review will include an evaluation of how and if UNESCO supports United 

States interests. In particular, the review will include an analysis of any 

anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sentiment within the organization. 

Sec. 3. Funding. (a) Executive departments and agencies shall not use any 

funds for a contribution, grant, or other payment to UNRWA, consistent 

with section 301 of title III, division G, of Public Law 118–47 (March 

23, 2024). The Secretary shall withdraw the determination previously made 

under section 7048(c)(1) of title VII, division F, of Public Law 118–47. 

Accordingly, of the funds appropriated for a contribution to the UN Regular 

Budget under the heading ‘‘Contributions to International Organizations’’ 

of Public Law 118–47, as most recently continued by Public Law 118– 

158 (December 21, 2024), the Secretary shall withhold the United States 

proportionate share of the total annual amount of UN Regular Budget funding 

for the UNHRC, consistent with section 7048(c) of title VII, division F, 

of Public Law 118–47. 


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(b) Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Secretary, in consultation 

with the UN Ambassador, shall conduct a review of all international intergovernmental organizations of which the United States is a member and provides 

any type of funding or other support, and all conventions and treaties 

to which the United States is a party, to determine which organizations, 

conventions, and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States 

and whether such organizations, conventions, or treaties can be reformed. 

Upon the conclusion of that review, the Secretary shall report the findings 

to the President, through the Assistant to the President for National Security 

Affairs, and provide recommendations as to whether the United States should 

withdraw from any such organizations, conventions, or treaties. 

Sec. 4. Notification. The Secretary shall inform the UN Secretary General 

and the leadership of UNRWA and the UN High Commissioner for Human 

Rights that the United States will not fund UNRWA or the UNHRC and 

that the United States will not satisfy any claims to pay 2025 assessments 

or prior arrears by these organizations. 

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed 

to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, 

or the head thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and 

subject to the availability of appropriations. 

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, 

substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party 

against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, 

employees, or agents, or any other person. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

February 4, 2025. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02504 

Filed 2–7–25; 11:15 am] 

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