While pursuing an “America first” policy, the Donald Trump administration has discovered the international and domestic benefits of peacemaking. Trump’s June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended with a rather vague communique. Nevertheless, it filled Trump with the confidence that he could achieve the complete denuclearization of North Korea through a negotiated settlement in less than three years.
In a meeting held in New York on June 15, White House adviser Jared Kushner, Middle East negotiations envoy Jason Greenblatt and US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley discussed with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres the upcoming US peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the need to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need to curb anti-Israeli resolutions at various UN forums.