UN ‘Club’ Trump Derided Forges Unexpected Alliance on Key Issues
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President Donald Trump, who derided the United Nations as a “club for people to get together, talk and have a good time” after his election, is surprising veterans of the global body by leaning on it to help carry out his foreign policy agenda.
From pushing the Security Council to tighten sanctions on North Korea to forging a partnership with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres over cutting troubled peacekeeping programs, the Trump administration and UN officials have found overlapping areas of agreement that many analysts didn’t expect.
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UN ‘Club’ Trump Derided Forges Unexpected Alliance on Key Issues