Damascus-Sana
President Donald Trump's wholesale decisions on US withdrawal from several international agreements, the latest of which was the Paris Climate Agreement, appeared to be a deliberate approach devoted to mocking international laws and disparaging them before US and international public opinion.
The United States shuns long-standing international or bilateral treaties and agreements that culminated in the Trump era, which, since taking office in 2017, has announced a withdrawal or threatened to withdraw from several international conventions, ignoring international conventions and norms, ignoring criticism and voices calling for a retreat from such reckless steps. The most recent withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, which triggered a series of US and international reactions ranging from disapproval and anger.
Trump reaffirmed that he will not change his behavior towards international conventions and treaties, as his administration presented to the United Nations the necessary papers to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement as the first official step in a year-long process to get out of this global agreement aimed at combating climate change. Its exit on November 4 next year is the only country outside the agreement, although it is one of the most emitters of greenhouse gases.
Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Convention is not surprising and he denies the existence of climate change in the original and describes it as a hoax and does not recognize the phenomenon of global warming, citing scientific facts and warnings experts ignored, and it is the mockery of environmental activist Greta Tonberg, who recently delivered a speech on climate change In front of the United Nations, which sparked widespread criticism against him.
As usual for Trump administration officials who are quick to find excuses and justifications for their president's decisions contrary to international laws and logic, as in the case of withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to alleviate the widespread condemnations and criticism of this step, claiming that the climate agreement imposed "unfair economic burdens." The United States and Washington "use all energy and technology resources cleanly and effectively, including fossil fuels, nuclear and renewable energy."
The US administration's move to formally withdraw from the Paris Agreement was met with immediate criticism. France expressed regret over the US decision to inform the United Nations of its formal withdrawal from the agreement.
Russia's response came from Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who warned that the US withdrawal from the climate agreement is seriously undermined by the fact that it is the first country in terms of the amount of pollutant emissions of air. At the American level criticized the leader of the Democrats in the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Robert He said the Trump administration "once again mocked its allies, ignored the facts and further politicized the world's greatest environmental challenge."
The Paris Agreement, which is the first comprehensive international agreement on climate protection, will not be the first nor the last to elude the US administration with the presence of Trump, who has already withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization "UNESCO" accusing it of being hostile to "Israel" as he drove his country. Of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement signed by 11 countries in 2015 from the Asia-Pacific region, representing 40 percent of the global economy, in addition to its withdrawal earlier this year from the Treaty on the elimination of medium and short-range missiles signed in 1987 between former US President Ronald Reagan and President of the The Soviet Union then Mikhail Gorbachev, despite warnings to the consequences of this step of the serious implications for global security.
Trump's agreements, including the nuclear deal with Iran, which Trump began since he arrived at the White House, have continued to undermine him after Iran, the P5 + 1 - the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia - plus Germany in July 2015 following a string of tough negotiations. Lasted for years.
Trump's negative attitudes toward international conventions and his frequent withdrawals from historic treaties have brought clear indications that the United States does not want international stability and that most of its interest is in its interests, while observers believe that Trump's insistence on withdrawing from similar treaties can be interpreted as an attempt to strengthen the approach of American isolation. Which he has followed since winning the US presidential election or that he is an attempt by him to walk the opposite direction and violate the decisions of his former counterparts in the US administration to satisfy his arrogance and his narcissistic tendencies.
Bassima Kenoun
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