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The Trump administration offered to cancel the US State Department’s agency responsible for politics in Africa and the closure of many embassies on the continent in a draft executive that was encouraged as a “trick” by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio.

The document, which is seen by the Financial Times, suggests that the American Climate President’s envoy, along with the offices responsible for human rights, refugees and American policy at the United Nations and other international organizations. American diplomatic operations in Canada, including the embassy in Ottawa, will also work on a “significant decrease.”

Rubio He said the draft order, which was mentioned by the New York Times for the first time, was “fake news”. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said: “The NYT article is fully based on a fake document.”

The White House referred the correspondents to Rubio’s response.

“The draft is legitimate, but it is still a draft,” said a former US official. “I see it more than an experimental balloon.”

The draft request, which has not yet been completed, calls for Rubio to make changes by October 1. Was it possible to come into effect, a major change in how the US government has participated with the world during the next four years and beyond?

It calls for a “disciplined reorganization” of the administration to “simplify the delivery of the task, the American power project abroad, the cutting of waste, fraud, abuse of use”, and alignment with the oath with “America’s first strategic principle” in the White House.

The document describes the doctrine as dependent on the principle: “Does America make safe, stronger and more prosperous?”

The proposed order will be closed by the African Affairs Office, an agency Ashraf of American Policy throughout the continent since its opening in 1958. He presided over the sub -Saharan African operations, a special envoy for African affairs.

The document also invites all unnecessary “embassies and consulate” in Sub -Saharan Africa To be closed, with all “diplomatic and development operations” in the region under the supervision of the special envoy.

The proposed matter said that the Special Envoy of Africa will focus on four US priorities on the continent. This will be: fighting terrorism. Diplomacy provides American interests to “specific temporary issues”; Health monitoring and epidemic coordination; Strategic extraction and critical mineral trade.

Masad Paulus, the chief adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Africa, and the son -in -law of Trump Tiffany’s daughter, said on a recent visit to the continent. We had negotiating With the Democratic Republic of the Congo to allow American companies to control mineral assets in exchange for assisting to mediate the conflict with the rebels supported by Rwanda.

It was the American Agency for International Development It was greatly destroyed In the first week of the second Trump administration in January, almost all aid and development work stopped, Africa is the most difficult blow.

The International Coordinator of the World Mediators, which leads the implementation of the President’s Emergency Emergency Plan Pepfar, will be eliminated under the proposal draft.

Most of PePfar, launched by the former president George WW Bush in 2003It focuses on Africa and it has been credited with saving the lives of about 20 million.

As part of the proposed restructuring of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, many other regional offices will be eliminated and replaced by four new “Corps”-Ourasia, the Middle East, Latin America, India and the Pacific-to manage global affairs.

The proposal will submit purchases until September 30 to the current external service officers and qualified civil service staff “who do not want to participate” in reorganization.

Additional reports by Claire Jones in Washington