‘US State Department Prepares to close in the coming months even a twelve consulates, mainly in Western Europe, and intends to reduce the number of its employees worldwide," said Reuters agency, citing American officials.
USA. Staff redundancies and decommissioning
The agency besides reported a period ago that US diplomatic missions around the planet have remained asked to consider reducing staff by at least 10%. – both American and local.
President of the United States Donald Trump in February he issued an executive order aimed at reorganization of American abroad service. This decision involves the operation of the State Performance Department (DOGE), headed by a billionaire Elon Musk.
Trump and Musk say the U.S. government is besides large and his financial assistance is being spent in a wasteful and dishonest manner.
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The State Department is besides considering merger of their offices at Washington headquarters, peculiarly those working in the areas of human rights, the exile crisis, women's rights or actions to combat trafficking in human beings. In addition, in Washington, dozens of employees of the Office for Democracy, Human Rights and the Department of State have been fired in fresh weeks. Office received order to make closure plans by April – says Reuters.
Plans to shut down a twelve consulates. Most in Western Europe
Reuters, citing American officials reported plans the closure of respective US consulates – most of them are in Western Europe. The list of European office includes Leipzig, Hamburg and Düsseldorf in Germany, Bordeaux, Rennes, Lyon and Strasbourg in France and Florence in Italy.
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The Department besides notified legislature of plans to close the branch in Gaziantep, southeastern TurkeyWhere did Washington support humanitarian activities in northern Syria. They besides have facilities in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and Ponta Delgada, Portugal.
These decisions may inactive change due to the fact that a large proportion of consulate staff advocates that the facilities remained open after all.
According to the State Department's website, there are over 270 U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide, employing a full of Almost 70 000 workers – Of which approx. 45 000 are locally employed workers, 13 000 are abroad service members and 11 000 are civilian servants.
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