According to an email reviewed by Reuters, the Trump Administration official proposed to help the main US foreign aid agency’s crisis -stricken Lebanon and Rohingya, the world’s largest stateless population.
Written by Peter Maroko on 16 February, acting USAID deputy administrator, provides a window in some thinking behind the administration’s drive to eliminate email aid programs that does not believe that it gives benefits to America
In this, Maroko Rohingya and Lebanon wanted to express their gratitude for American support, saying that “America should buy some types of ideas or good beliefs from the recipient’s population from the recipient population.”
Email directed Tim Meesberger, head of the USAID’s Human Affairs Bureau, to drain a “action memo” to the “The Odd Dependency” of Lebanon and the “Action Memo” of “Action Memo” for Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
This “we should underline how we recommend, immediately, the options to send the signal, although we have compassion, people had warning on 5 November, and things have to be changed,” Maroko wrote, “Maroko wrote Tram’s 2024 re -election.
He said, “Please propose the best method and timeline to fulfill this dependence and what we want from them, or from partners. Nothing is outstanding,” he wrote, apparently the absence of any American obligation to provide further support.
A formula with the knowledge of the issue confirmed the authenticity of the email and Maroko demanded help to Rohingya and Lebanon.
Marocco “is not convinced that these people require more help,” the formula said.
The State Department refused to comment. Marocco and Meisburger did not immediately respond to the remarks requests.
Reuters could not determine whether Mesberger had sent a memorandum requested to Rubio or how much American assistance is flowing in Lebanon or more than 1 million Rohingyas have participated in violent harassment in Myanmar in 2022 that the US declared a massacre in 2022.
The United States provides military, human and other assistance to Lebanon.
Maroko sent an email as he and billionaire were launching a campaign to shrink USAID and merge their remains into the state department.
They have fired hundreds of employees and contractors and have abolished billions of dollars in services, on which millions of people around the world are dependent. Rubio said on Monday that more than 80% of all USAID programs have been canceled.
Rohingya is covered with aid exemption
The campaign began after Trump took over on January 20, the Republican President ordered a 90-day freeze on all foreign aid whether the aid programs are in line with his first foreign policy.
The source said that food assistance for Rohingya and Lebanon was preserved from freeze for emergency food assistance issued by Rubio on 24 February.
Four days later, Rubio gave such a discount to provide such assistance for all life saving medical, medical services, food, shelter, and subsistence aid, supply and proper administrative costs.
According to a website of the State Department, the US has been the largest provider of aid to Rohingya refugees, contributing around $ 2.4 billion since 2017.
More than 1 million Rohingya live in squalid camps in the Cox Bazaar district of Bangladesh, which is on the border of Myanmar, and according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, 95% of Rohingya houses depend on humanitarian aid.
Others have sought shelter in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Thailand and other places.
Earlier this month, the United Nations warned that it would have to cut Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh next month from $ 12.50 to $ 6, until it could raise more money.
Visiting the Cock’s market on Friday, United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said that the United Nations could do all this to help prevent cuts in the ration of refugees.
Lebanon is shaken by a series of crises, including Syria, political paralysis, a financial collapse, an explosion, which destroyed the port of Berut and fed in October 2023 between Israel and the Iran-supported Hizbullah movement in October 2023, which was between thousands.
The US has considered the stability of Lebanon as important for the region and demanded to combat the impact that Iran has reached there through Hizbullah, a part of Tehran’s resistance against Israel.
By that end, in its first term, gradual Democratic and Republican Presidents, including Trump, have approved more than $ 5.5 billion in humanitarian, military and other assistance in 2001, according to the USAID website.
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