MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday welcomed the new US government’s decision to screen USAID as an independent company, calling the charitable figure a “machine for interfering” in world affairs.
Elon Musk, the close aide to US President Donald Trump, made the announcement on Monday that the sizable humanitarian organization would be” shutting along” as part of his radical plan to reduce the US government.
The US state office will now assume USAID’s works, according to a statement released on Tuesday that the organization will take administrative leave of absence from its employees in the United States and other countries.
In response to Moscow’s historic condemnation of the company, Russian foreign government spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said,” The only thing we take a certain pleasure from is that everything we said turned out to be true.”
Russia expelled USAID in 2012, or “meddling” in its elections. It had much accused the organization and other organizations of starting up democracies in former Soviet Union countries.
” It is anything but an help, development and support agency”, said Zakharova.
” It is a system for interfering in internal affairs, it is a method for changing systems, social order, state framework”.
The support arm of US foreign policy, USAID supported health and disaster plans as well as democracy promotion activities in about 120 countries, including the world’s poorest areas.
Its use of soft power by authoritarian rulers has long been condemned by its adversaries, even China, in its struggle for control.
Musk has called USAID” a spider’s colony of radical-left socialists who hate America”. Trump claimed last week that the organization was being run by a “bunch of extreme loons.”
Support organizations have a timely response to the assault on the company. They claim that it has already resulted in the suspension of programs, including those aimed at preventing and treating HIV.
