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Ambassador Waltz Tells the Daily Signal: The UN Is Worth It

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

The United Nations is bloated, duplicative, and inefficient, according to U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz. But despite its flaws, he thinks the organization is worth saving.

“You need one place in the world where everybody can come and talk, and at least talk,” he told the Daily Signal in a phone call from the 2026 United Nations General Assembly in New York City. “I’ve learned as a diplomat, especially in some of these war-torn environments with 1,000-year-old animosities, just getting both sides in the room is often a huge first step.”

Waltz has seen the benefit of the U.N. in action with the war between Ukraine and Russia.

“At the beginning of the president’s term, there was no one talking from either side,” he said. “Now we’ve had multiple rounds of pulling them together, and we’ll see. Hopefully, by the end of this year, we can get both [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy and [Vladimir] Putin at least in the same room to begin a conversation, so the president’s willing to engage anyone anywhere to try to craft a deal for peace, and for all of its flaws, the U.N. is a key place to do that.”

The same is true of the........

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