Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been actively shaping major US foreign policy debates over the past several days. One of the most significant recent developments involved his direct efforts to pressure the United Arab Emirates to support a humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan. On November fourteenth, according to Reuters and The New Arab, Rubio conducted a call with the UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, urging immediate action to address what the United Nations now calls the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Rubio emphasized the need to halt the flow of weapons to the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group accused of atrocities and mass displacement in Sudan.

The United Arab Emirates has faced allegations from United Nations experts and US lawmakers regarding the supply of arms to the Sudanese paramilitaries, although the UAE ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva denied any involvement. Rubio responded to reporters on November twelfth by calling for more robust efforts to cut off weapon supplies to all parties fueling the conflict, without naming the UAE directly. He stated that pressure is being applied at the highest levels of government, and he did not rule out designating the Rapid Support Forces as a terrorist organization if it would help bring an end to ongoing violence.

Rubio’s diplomatic focus has also included the war in Ukraine, as highlighted in a recent conversation described by the Associated Press. Finland’s President Alexander Stubb referenced a high-level call between Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that preceded a key White House decision to cancel a potential Trump-Putin summit in Budapest. Stubb reportedly credited Rubio’s assessment for helping shape President Trump’s decision, noting that Russian positions on Ukraine had not changed and there was no point in pursuing a deal at that stage. These events underscore Rubio’s influential role in calibrating US responses to Russia’s war in Ukraine and ensuring coordinated policy with European allies.

In domestic policy at the State Department, Rubio has taken steps to reduce spending on overseas diplomatic travel. Reports from AOL indicate that since becoming Secretary of State, he has led efforts to cut such expenditures by nearly one hundred million dollars for the year, significantly shrinking the department’s travel budget as a cost-saving measure.

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