On Friday, the US Senate confirmed Mike Waltz, a former White House Advisor for National Security, as an ambassador to the United States in the United Nations. According to the AP report and CBS News, TASR reports this.
The 47 -to -43 vote was held just a few days before the UN General Assembly in New York, where world leaders and their representatives will meet.
Uninterrupted
The post of US Ambassador to the UN – the last member of the Trump Cabinet, which was confirmed – was unoccupied for eight months. CBS explains that the US did not have the main representative on one of the world’s most important scenes, while several international crises were in the world.
Waltz was an advisor to US President Donald Trump for national security this year, but the White House chief announced in May that Waltz would leave his post and at the same time announced his nomination for the new US Ambassador to the UN.
Signal scandal
Before his departure from office, Waltz became the center of attention for the scandal related to the conversation of Trump’s administration representatives in a closed chat group in the commercial application Signal, where he also invited the editor -in -chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg. It discussed the upcoming attacks on Yemen, which eventually occurred on 15 March. Waltz took full responsibility to create a group to which Goldberg added.
According to CBS News, Waltz is taking a new function at a time when Trump’s frustration from Russia is increasing for his refusal to end more than three and a half years of war in Ukraine. The US is also striving to handle tensions with China and Iran and negotiate to end the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, which has claimed over 65,000 dead in more than 23 months and caused famine and catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
UN needs reform
The new US ambassador to the UN told Senators during his interview that the UN needed a “extensive” reform, and at the same time declared that there is “an important and meaningful work to do”.
“We should have one place in the world where everyone can tell China, Russia, Europe and a developing clash to meet and address conflicts,” Waltz said. In addition, he stated that the UN had diverted from its basic mission – building peace after 80 years.
