据新华社报道，美国国务卿鲁比奥22日宣布美国务院将实施全面重组计划，以精简人员和削减成本，落实美国总统特朗普宣扬的“美国优先”外交政策。

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday announced a comprehensive plan to reorganize the US State Department, aiming to deliver on US President Donald Trump's America First foreign policy.

美国国务院 资料图 图源：美媒报道配图

鲁比奥当天在一份声明中说，美国“正在全球范围内面临巨大挑战”，“目前的国务院机构臃肿、官僚主义严重，在大国竞争的新时代，难以履行其重要的外交使命”。重组计划旨在将美国国务院“带入21世纪”，以更好地推进美国核心国家利益。

Rubio said in a statement that "we are facing tremendous challenges across the globe" and "in its current form, the Department is bloated, bureaucratic, and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission in this new era of great power competition." "Over the past 15 years, the Department's footprint has had unprecedented growth and costs have soared. But far from seeing a return on investment, taxpayers have seen less effective and efficient diplomacy. The sprawling bureaucracy created a system more beholden to radical political ideology than advancing America's core national interests," Rubio noted. "That is why today I am announcing a comprehensive reorganization plan that will bring the Department into the 21st Century," he said, adding that "This approach will empower the Department from the ground up, from the bureaus to the embassies. Region-specific functions will be consolidated to increase functionality, redundant offices will be removed, and non-statutory programs that are misaligned with America's core national interests will cease to exist."

据美国媒体报道，美国务院全面重组计划第一阶段将在美国境内削减约15%的员工，撤销132个办事机构。预计将在首都华盛顿削减约700个职位，一些涉及民主人权、多元化等事务相关机构将被关停。与此同时，将设立一些新的机构，包括成立一个新部门专门应对所谓“新兴威胁”，重点关注网络安全、人工智能扩散等领域。

The plan will reportedly reduce staff in the United States by 15 percent and eliminate more than 130 domestic offices. The changes would bring the total number of offices at the State Department's headquarters from 734 to 602. An additional 137 offices will be transitioned to another location within the Department to increase efficiency, CNN reported, citing an internal State Department fact sheet obtained by the news outlet. The plan will cut around 700 positions in Washington, DC, and close offices focused on war crimes and global conflict, said the report.

报道称，此举将是美国外交系统数十年来最大的变革，是特朗普政府为重塑美国外交政策和缩减联邦政府规模所作的最新努力。

来源：新华社

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