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(17 Mar 2017) US President Donald Trump's proposed deep cuts to humanitarian aid go against the global development goals the United States committed to in 2015, the European Union's international development chief warned Friday.

Neven Mimica said that any cut or withdrawal of funds from development assistance projects counters the implementation of the sustainable development goals adopted at the United Nations.

Mimica was responding to a question about Trump's budget proposal, which would carve 17 billion US dollars from funding for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development. That's a drop of 31 percent, a dramatic shift for the world's top humanitarian donor.

The budget proposal still requires Congress' approval.

He added that the European Union was committed to "do our best to be the best donor in the world."

Mimica was in Ethiopia's capital to announce 165 million euros (177 million US dollars) of support for Somalia and South Sudan, which are suffering from drought and famine.




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