Tuesday, the U.S. President Donald Trump will stand before the U.N. General Assembly, where the world leaders will consider urgency issues impacting the world, including the Gaza Strip and Ukraine, and will question whether the United States, which is still operating under its policy of America First, can remain a global torchbearer.
It is through this foreign-policy agenda that Trump has shaken the traditional norms since he made claims to the presidency in January. He cut spending on foreign aid, imposed tariffs on friends as well as enemies, and developed a dangerous but friendlier relationship with Russia. In the meantime, his efforts on both international issues of entrenchment have been only partially fruitful.
It is estimated that the Assembly will receive about 150 heads of state and government. The second speech will be delivered by Trump once the session begins at 9 a.m. EDT (1:00 p.m. GMT). His statements follow eight months of the second term of radical aid cuts that have elicited humanitarian alarm and uncertainty on the very existence of the U.N. To that end, Secretary-General António Guterres has been pressed to reduce expenditures and to increase efficiency.
The White House officials are still silent on the matter, but documents reviewed by Reuters indicate that the Trump administration is planning to push an extreme reversal of asylum rights. It would technically remove the humanitarian system that took place after the Second World War, where asylum seekers must seek protection in the new country they find themselves in, instead of opting to go to a more favourable location.
It is also in the Assembly where Trump and Guterres will officially meet, the first time Trump has seen him since Trump came back to office in January. Trump has time and again said the U.N. has tremendous potential, but he demands that it should put its act together. His admittedly cynical approach to multilateralism, which is one of the inherent characteristics of his first term in 2017-2021, is not going to disappear, and he has long criticized the organization in terms of its inability to help him broker peace with various hotspots.
With the world still reeling from the increasing series of successive conflicts, the focus will be on the speech of Trump: Will he reassert that America remains a leader on the world stage, or will he highlight the constraints of U.S. influence in the changing geopolitical environment?
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