{"id":186620,"date":"2025-09-22T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=186620"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:26:05","slug":"americans-consider-un-a-necessary-but-ineffective-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/186620\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans consider UN a necessary but ineffective institution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The survey, released Monday ahead of the 80th U.N. General Assembly this week, found that while 60 percent of Americans see the U.N. as necessary — a slight decrease compared with previous polls conducted over the last decade — 63 percent say the U.N. is doing a poor job trying to solve global problems.<\/p>\n

Support for the United Nations has been higher in the past; in a 1997 survey, 85 percent of Americans said the global organization played a necessary role in the world.<\/p>\n

Still, most Americans support the U.S. government funding the U.N., with 35 percent of respondents wanting to maintain current levels and 25 percent wanting to increase funding. Thirty-seven percent said they favored decreasing funding.<\/p>\n

A large majority — 79 percent — believe the U.S. should remain a member of the U.N. But 17 percent believe the U.S. should give up its membership, a tie with the record set in 1996 as the highest in Gallup’s U.N. analysis spanning back decades.<\/p>\n

Fifty-nine percent of Republican respondents believe the U.N. doesn’t play a necessary role, compared with just 19 percent of Democrats.<\/p>\n

In his second administration, President Donald Trump has generally called for the U.S. — which funds 22 percent of the U.N. regular budget and is its largest contributor — to back away from international organizations, and has cut international foreign aid.<\/p>\n

Trump in February pulled the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n

The poll was conducted by telephone interviews from Aug. 1-20 with a random sample of 1,094 American adults.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"