UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy cautions the US against drastic cuts to foreign aid, drawing parallels to the UK's own experience with the closure of its Department for International Development (DFID). Lammy suggests that such cuts could create a vacuum for China and other nations to fill, undermining US influence.
: US President Donald Trump ’s cuts to foreign aid could be a “strategic mistake”, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has warned, PA Media/dpa news agency reported.
He said the UK had spent years “unravelling that strategic mistake” after Boris Johnson merged DFID with the Foreign Office in 2020. “We were hugely critical of the way the last government handled the decision. So I would caution US friends to look closely at what went wrong in the United Kingdom as they navigate this decision.”
Trump is also facing a backlash after he issued sanctions against officials at the International Criminal Court . The spokesman later added that the “UK and the US, over a number of administrations, have taken a different view on the ICC” and pointed to the fact that the UK is a signatory to the Rome statute, which established the ICC, whereas the US is not.
The order signed by Trump accuses the ICC of engaging in “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel” and of abusing its power by issuing “baseless arrest warrants” against Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant.
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