Trump urged critics to re -evaluate the immunity of United Nations and the policies of visas between safety risks
An agreement of 1947 that outlines the obligations as the Concitrice of the United Nations continues to offer employees and their family members a relatively free access to the United States
In a moment of increasing the fears of national security and the application of immigration by the Trump Administration, the experts are pushing a review of the accommodation of the host nation with an eye to the functional immunity granted to the United Nations staff and the limited control given to those with Visi of the United Nations.
“The United States seems to have taken a relaxed vision of people who enter the country associated with the United Nations, as employees or as representatives of various country missions. Yet we know that the United Nations employees have had and continue to have, closed, direct relationships with terrorist organizations, such as UNRWA and HAMAS,“Anne Bayefsky, director of the Tour Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of Human Rights Voices, told Fox News Digital.
Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Russia for foreign affairs, speaks with Vassily nebedia, Ambassador of the United Nations in Russia, during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on April 24, 2023. (Photo ap/john minchillo)
Bayefsky said that there is “a disconnection between the welcome routine and the significant damage to American interests. The United Nations hares does not require the host country to facilitate or endure threats to its national security”.
The Federal Government guarantees Vista G to employees, spouses and children of international organizations, including the United Nations, who reside or are visiting, the United States according to the website of the State Department, “if you are entitled to a GA Visa G, pursuant to the law on the vision of the United States, you must receive a visa G. The exceptions to this rule are extremely limited”. The State Department also explains that “Embassies and consulates generally do not require an interview for those who apply for G -1 – 4 and born -1 – 6 visas, although a consular officer may request an interview”.
Hugh Dugan, senior consultant of 11 former US Ambassadors of the United Nations, told Fox News Digital that “it seems to me that the issue of G -Views for (United Nations employees) is an exercise in relatively rubber stamp”. While not requiring staff interviews, it has become a question of convenience frankly, we should always be able to evaluate a threat to our country “.
Dugan, a former special assistant of the National Security Council of the President and Senior Director for the business of the international organization, said that nations such as Russia and China are authorized to travel only a certain distance from the United Nations headquarters. “We are aware of the activities and the presence of our opponents here, but the door is open to participate in the United Nations and the agreement of the host country makes it possible so that no country is forbidden due to a certain political atmosphere or question that could be produced between us and them”.
Former Iranian president Jewim Raisi shows the photo of General Kasim Soleimani at the United Nations. (Peter Aitken for Fox News Digital)
Fox News Digital asked the State Department if it requires staff interviews Contradictory member statesincluding Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, North Korea, Iran and China, but have not received a response. A spokesman for the State Department reiterated that consular officers “have full authority to request an interview of person for any reason”.
Peter Gallo, previously investigator of the United Nations Office for internal surveillance services (OIOS), told Fox News Digital that he is particularly concerned about the functional immunity granted to the United Nations staff who participate in activities related to their use. Gallo explained that “the American legal system has come to accept that it is practically a general coverage”. He added that “immunity raises impunity”.
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Gallo said that there is a epidemic of sexual crimes and bad conducted between the United Nations staff. He mentioned an accident in which an employee of the United Nations outside the United States sexually harassed “a young female in his department”. Gallo said that he wanted two years after receipt of the investigation relationship for the completion of an investigation, which led to the degradation of the offensive employee. Gallo said that the employee who was harassed and his molester remained in the same organization.
Gallo said that if employees take part in the misconduct while they are based at the United Nations headquarters, the United States government should be able to examine cases and determine whether the staff should keep their visas G.
Dugan said that if the United Nations staff “knew that (immunity) could be raised at any time by us … they could start behaving in a very different way”.
Chinese vice -president Han Zheng is aimed at the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City on September 21, 2023. (And Jones/AFP via Getty Images)
In response to questions that the United Nations staff was accused of bad sexual conduct in the United States or if the United Nations staff who engaged in the bad conduct revoked GP, a spokesperson for the State Department explained that the department “generally does not provide” revocation statistics. They also said that “all visa candidates, regardless of the type of visa and where they are located, are continuously controlled. Safety control takes place from the time of each question, through the judgment of the visa and subsequently during the period of validity of each visa issued, to ensure that the individual remains suitable to travel in the United States.”
The spokesman said that United Nations officials “should comply with the applicable laws of the United States, including criminal laws. Failure to comply can constitute an abuse of privileges of residence”. They added that this “applies to those who also hold diplomatic immunity for their positions”.
Among the staff who raised internal alarm bells there is a special speaker from the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, who traveled in the United States in 2024 to deliver a report in front of the third committee of the General Assembly. The Albanian, whose anti -Semitism has been widely condemned by the US diplomatic elderly and by the State Department, was allowed to visit multiple US university campuses while in the United States
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In addition to the qualifications for visas of the “rubber stamp”, the staff of international organizations such as the United Nations can qualify for green cards if they have spent half of at least seven years of work within the United States or was in the United States for a total combined of 15 years before retirement.
