The Trump administration will also make the UN great again

"I am confident that we can make the UN great again," said President Donald Trump's nominee for the US permanent representative to the world organization, Mike Walz, quoted by Reuters and BTA.

At a Senate hearing necessary to confirm him in the post, Walz summarized his views that the UN needs reform and that the United States must have a strong voice to counter China.

The former commando and member of the House of Representatives from Florida is one of the last Trump nominees who has not yet been confirmed by the upper house of Congress - nearly half a year after the Republican became US president again.

A White House official, who requested anonymity, specified, that the future US permanent representative to the UN will not be a member of the cabinet.

"We need to have a place in the world where everyone can talk, where China, Russia, Europe, the developing world can come together and resolve conflicts", Walz told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. At the same time, he noted that "after 80 years, the UN has deviated from its core mission of peacekeeping" and called for "to return to (its) charter and founding principles".

Waltz largely repeated what Trump said about the world organization, Reuters notes.

He criticized what he said was the high costs of the UN and called for staff cuts.

The UN Charter "is not a menu of options", stressed the Secretary-General of the world organization Antonio Guterres at the end of last month.

In a speech on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the signing of the UN founding document on June 26, 1945. in San Francisco, Guterres warned that the charter is under attack like never before.

Mike Walz is a former Trump national security adviser, a post he was fired from on May 1 after taking full responsibility in April for the White House mistakenly sharing plans for a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen with a journalist on the messaging app "Signal" in March.