Mike Waltz Gears up for a New Role at the U.N. – Foreign Policy

After months of uncertainty about the next American ambassador to the United Nations, former National Security Adviser Mike Waltz made American diplomacy “first” during the assertion session before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 15. If Waltz’s nomination is forward, it will reach one of the unified diseases full of anxiety and anxiety about the future-at the top of the pieces heading towards Washington to demand the belt.

Waltz set some familiar observations from the relatively friendly session in January for the initial selection of US President Donald Trump to the United Nations ambassador, Representative Eliz Stefanick, who later withdrew Trump Trump in a political account account. But the Waltz session accelerated towards a loud interrogation of Democrats about the role of the former National Security Adviser in the controversy over chatting in March and his rejection of the position in May.

After months of uncertainty about the next American ambassador to the United Nations, former National Security Adviser Mike Waltz made American diplomacy “first” during the assertion session before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 15. If Waltz’s nomination is forward, it will reach one of the unified diseases full of anxiety and anxiety about the future-at the top of the pieces heading towards Washington to demand the belt.

Waltz set some familiar observations from the relatively friendly session in January for the initial selection of US President Donald Trump to the United Nations ambassador, Representative Eliz Stefanick, who later withdrew Trump Trump in a political account account. But the Waltz session accelerated towards a loud interrogation of Democrats about the role of the former National Security Adviser in the controversy over chatting in March and his rejection of the position in May.

However, if Waltz is confirmed, this party policy in Washington will not be a great concern for its counterparts at the United Nations headquarters in New York. It is possible that Waltz, a special forces officer in the former US military who received four stars of bronze before his election to the House of Representatives in 2018, will face a difficult battle to persuade some diplomats and United Nations officials to accept a narrower role on the United Nations World Theater.

Certainly, many diplomats will welcome the arrival of the new American ambassador after a long time without one. One of the high -ranking diplomats said that the temporary ambassador, the Dorothy Dorothy Chia, was nice, but it was not clear that he was not enabled to act on its own. The diplomat said: “It is a professional, of course, but for everything you ask, she says I need to go to Washington,” noting that the permanent actor who has the president’s ear may be able to “transfer the two directions.”

United Nations diplomats are now discussing the meaning of Al -Fals last week to “make the United Nations great again.” Moreover, the Senate session threw the great power relationship between the United States and China into severe relief, with a focus on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Senate members left both parties the impression that they considered Russia as a sabotage force, while they saw China forged to global rule.

This disturbs the prevailing mood at the United Nations, where diplomats say that since Trump took office in January, Russia appears less isolated than it was during the term of US President Joe Biden. For example, on the third anniversary of the full conquest of Russia in February, the United States made a competitor at the last minute to Ukraine. The American decision did not mention the Russian aggression, and Moscow did not veto the veto against it – as it did to the Security Council resolutions in the war that led to the Biden administration.

There is a lot at the testimony of the United Nations: The Trump administration budget for 2026 proposes to cancel most of the mandatory American financing and voluntary contributions to the basic operations of the United Nations. At the Senate session, Waltz stressed that the budget allows the financing of peacekeeping, fighting terrorism, and biological human assistance, although he stressed that every dollar will be examined.

“The United States must make sure that every dollar is a foreign aid tools and every contribution to an international organization, especially the United Nations, is attracting a straight and direct line to a convincing national interest, and it puts America first, not the past,” Walz told the committee.

This selective approach to the United Nations financing may be confused by diplomats and employees, as the United Nations system is already facing a severe budget shortage. Next year’s budget calls for a 20 percent decrease in the United Nations Secretariat employees. At a recent press conference, Jay Ryder, the United Nations General General of Policy, told reporters that these discounts in employees will not be distributed evenly, leaving employees to guess departments that may be more affected.

It is unlikely to criticize Vals for “waste, fraud and abuse” and described the United Nations to a “inflated bureaucracy” during his confirmation session to emphasize employee concerns. While acknowledged the importance of humanitarian agencies such as the World Food Program, for example, Waltz refused to focus on various UN agencies on climate change.

In March, UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres announced an attempt to search for ways to reform and simplify the United Nations in the future, known as the United Nations Initiative. The name is a reference to the eighties of the organization’s founding, but there is a difference between the United Nations member states on how the plan form the priorities of the United Nations system, which is widely within three main pillars: peace, security, human rights and development.

Some diplomats from developing countries say that programs aimed at improving their living levels should distinguish on other pillars. “We believe that the basic interests of developing countries should be given priority, and focused on accelerating the achievement of sustainable development goals,” said Pakistan Ambassador to the United Nations, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, said, Foreign policyIn reference to the United Nations sustainable development goals. Ahmed holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month.

Waltz’s evaluation appears during his confirmation session that “after 80 years, he is drifting from his basic mission of the peace industry,” indicates any pillar of Trump’s administration.

senator Jin Shaheen, the highest Democrats of the Foreign Relations Committee, warned that if the United States is retracted from the financing of international bodies, it may become “increasingly dependent on China”, allowing Kane.[write] The rules “on critical issues such as technology, artificial intelligence, health and human rights. In fact, the United Nations diplomats say that since Trump was elected last November, China has enthusiastically enthusiastically and sought to include its citizens in high -level and medium -level positions.

Last Thursday, Guterres used a Chinese citizen to replace Ghani as a special envoy for the African century, which must have raised the eyebrows in the US State Department. The area, which is located along the strategic shipping corridors, is a place for great energy competition. Djibouti hosts the only permanent Chinese military base in Africa and the initial American base on the continent, along with the foreign military bases of France, Italy, Japan and other countries. The Secretary -General of the United Nations has a degree of independence in the appointment of special envoys, but a fully -employed American mission to the United Nations has pushed this decision.

The Israeli war in Gaza is exposed to another flash point to the United Nations during the confirmation session, as reported by Republican Steve Denz, Francesca Albaniz, as the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the occupied Palestinian territories. The Trump administration approved on July 9, a great prohibited decision that the United Nations has called on the administration to the opposite.

Denz Walz asked how he planned to face what Denz described as “the anti -Semitic influence of United Nations officials like Mrs. Albanz.” Al -Fals expressed his support for the decision of its sanctions and pledged to challenge the “anti -Semitism” in the United Nations

The most uncomfortable signs that the Trump administration may leave on the United Nations can direct the decision on who will fill the shoes of Guterres. The Secretary -General will end at the end of 2026, and the General Assembly will appoint his successor based on the recommendation of the Security Council. The successful candidate will need at least nine votes from the Security Council without causing any of the five permanent members, which actually guarantees a candidate for the settlement that will not be overturned by China, Russia or the United States.

When reading the lines, Waltz’s confirmation session indicated that the Trump administration is open to negotiate American funding for United Nations agencies that it considers contributing to common security goals. But he will go back strongly to those who are considered ineffective or ideological driven or inconsistent with American interests – even if that means tearing the international play book that is largely consisted by the United States after World War II. It is difficult to say when Washington and Peter Bay looked more than a step.