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Staff member urges better coordination between U.S. embassies and USAID
Summary
A staff member told the meeting that foreign aid must be coordinated with other U.S. foreign‑policy tools to avoid undermining diplomatic goals, citing cases in multiple countries and recent feedback from the Caribbean.
A staff member said foreign aid must be coordinated with other tools of U.S. foreign policy to avoid undercutting diplomatic objectives.
"Foreign aid is a tool of our foreign policy. It is not the only tool of our foreign policy," the staff member said during the meeting, adding that aid programs must be "taken in conjunction with all of these other things that we do and they have to be intertwined." The staff member described visits to "multiple countries around the world" and said…
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