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U.S. First Lady Melania Trump volition preside implicit a U.N. Security Council gathering successful what the United Nations connected Thursday (February 27, 2026) said would beryllium a first.
When the woman of President Donald Trump takes her spot successful the president's seat connected Monday afternoon, it “will beryllium the archetypal clip a archetypal lady, oregon archetypal man for that matter, has ever presided implicit a Security Council meeting,” U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters.
The United States takes implicit the rotating presidency of the 15-member assembly for March, and the First Lady's bureau said the gathering she volition preside implicit volition “emphasise education's relation successful advancing tolerance and satellite peace.”
Melania Trump has made children successful struggle 1 of her signature issues, writing a missive to Russian President Vladimir Putin past twelvemonth up of a acme with President Trump and aboriginal announcing that the effort had led to a radical of children displaced by the Russia-Ukraine warfare reuniting with their families.
Trump’s disapproval of U.N.
It comes arsenic President Trump has repeatedly criticised the United Nations, saying it has not lived up to its potential. He has withdrawn the U.S. from U.N. organisations, including the World Health Organization and the taste bureau UNESCO, portion pulling backing from dozens of others.
The U.S. besides owes the United Nations billions of dollars. Until earlier this month, the Trump medication had not paid immoderate of its mandatory dues for the UN's regular operating fund for 2025 oregon this year. It paid $160 million, astir 4% of the astir $4 cardinal it has owed the U.N. overall, including for U.N. peacekeeping operations.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned precocious past period that the United Nations faces “imminent fiscal collapse” unless its fiscal rules are overhauled oregon each subordinate nations wage their dues, a connection intelligibly directed astatine the United States.
Mr. Trump besides raised concerns among allies that his wider ambitions for the Board of Peace to play a relation successful different planetary conflicts beyond Gaza would sidestep the U.N. Security Council.
Pushing backmost against the disapproval during the archetypal gathering of the Board of Peace past week, Mr. Trump said that “we're going to marque definite the United Nations is viable” and that “I deliberation it's going to yet unrecorded up to its potential.”
He added, “Someday, I won't beryllium present — the United Nations volition be.”
Significance of Melania presiding implicit meeting
As for the value of Melania Trump presiding implicit the Security Council meeting, Mr. Dujarric called it "a motion of the value that the United States feels towards the Security Council and the subject.” Whatever state holds the assembly presidency for the period gets to take the taxable for immoderate signature meetings.
MR. Dujarric said U.N. governmental main Rosemary DiCarlo volition beryllium briefing the Security Council connected behalf of the secretary-general astatine Monday's gathering presided implicit by the archetypal woman and officially entitled “Children, Technology, and Education successful Conflict.”
