Heritage Foundation on Foreign Policy

Focus on humanitarian assistance in South Sudan

The U.S. has a key role to play in the mediation efforts underway in Addis Ababa. South Sudan is one of the largest recipients of U.S. bilateral aid in sub-Saharan Africa, and the U.S. was instrumental in helping the young country gain independence and stand up its government. The U.S. should focus now on ending the conflict, political reconciliation, and humanitarian assistance.

The U.S. should seek to end the conflict as quickly as possible. Ongoing instability is not in the interest of the South Sudan, the U.S., or neighboring countries.

Link US funding to support of US policy in UN

Recommendations on United Nations and international organizations:
• Evaluate membership in every international organization. The US must honestly assess whether each organization works as it was intended, its mission is focused and attainable and not dependent on "good faith" that does not exist, and it advances US interests. This should include an end to funding for those, like the UN Human Rights Council, that are irredeemably ineffective or otherwise work against U.S. interests.
• Link development assistance to a country's support for US policy priorities in the UN and other important international organizations. Since 2000, about 87% of the recipients of US development aid have voted against the US most of the time on non-consensus votes in the UN General Assembly, and over 72% have voted against the US most of the time on non-consensus votes deemed important by the Department of State.

Don't dilute US influence by expanding UN Security Council

Recommendations on United Nations and international organizations:
• Reject EU attempts to constrain U.S. global leadership. Maintain strong relations with individual European nation states; reject the EU's "multilateralisation of multipolarity" approach to refashion the international system; defend U.S. sovereignty against problematic EU-backed international treaties such as the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Ottawa Convention, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; oppose the EU's attempts to lift its arms embargo on China; and investigate EU funding streams in the U.S. to ensure compliance with U.S. law.
• Resist expansion of the Security Council. Expanding the council would contribute to gridlock, dilute U.S. influence, and likely result in less support for U.S. interests.

Disallow Palestine from joining ICC to threaten Israel