US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw his country from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the main UN relief agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), according to the White House press pool, Report informs via TASS.

The brief statement says the US president has signed “an EO [executive order] withdrawing the US from UNRWA and the UN Human Rights Council.”

Previously, Politico reported that Trump would stop US engagement with the UNHRC and UNRWA. The executive order was signed in the run-up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the US capital.