Rubio: US foreign policy will focus on core national interests

New U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that halfway nationalist interests volition beryllium astatine the bosom of American diplomacy arsenic President Donald Trump embarks connected his 2nd four-year word successful the White House.

Rubio, the archetypal of Trump’s Cabinet nominees to triumph Senate confirmation and instrumentality office, said successful a ngo connection that each U.S. spending and efforts connected overseas affairs “must beryllium justified with the reply to 3 elemental questions: Does it marque America safer? Does it marque America stronger? Does it marque America much prosperous?”

He said that “to beforehand our nationalist interest, we volition physique a much innovative, nimble, and focused State Department. This volition necessitate replacing immoderate priorities, deemphasizing immoderate issues, and eliminating immoderate practices.”

Rubio, 53, echoed Trump’s aboriginal promises to extremity masses of undocumented migrants from entering the U.S.

“The State Department volition nary longer undertake immoderate activities that facilitate oregon promote wide migration,” Rubio said. “Our diplomatic relations with different countries, peculiarly successful the Western Hemisphere, volition prioritize securing America’s borders, stopping amerciable and destabilizing migration, and negotiating the repatriation of amerciable immigrants” to their location countries.

Rubio said the State Department volition extremity immoderate efforts to beforehand diversity, equity and inclusion successful hiring, successful enactment with orders Trump issued connected time 1 of his caller term.

“This bid volition beryllium faithfully executed and observed successful some missive and spirit,” Rubio said, “We indispensable reward show and merit.”

He said overseas argumentation efforts “must instrumentality to the basics of diplomacy by eliminating our absorption connected governmental and taste causes that are divisive astatine location and profoundly unpopular abroad. This volition let america to behaviour a pragmatic overseas argumentation successful practice with different nations to beforehand our halfway nationalist interests.”

In addition, helium said the U.S. “must halt censorship and suppression of information” and “reprioritize truth.” He emphasized “the cardinal information that America is simply a large and conscionable state whose radical are generous and whose leaders present prioritize Americans’ halfway interests, portion respecting the rights and interests of different nations.”

With Trump announcing helium volition propulsion the United States retired of the Paris Climate Agreement — joining Iran, Libya and Yemen arsenic the lone countries that volition officially not adhere to the pact to bounds planetary warming — Rubio said the State Department “will usage diplomacy to assistance President Trump fulfill his committedness for a instrumentality to American vigor dominance.”

“Amid today’s reemerging large powerfulness rivalry,” Rubio said, “I volition empower our talented diplomatic corps to beforehand our ngo to marque America safer, stronger, and much prosperous.”