前塞内加尔总统马基·萨勒称，他可在美国支持下削减浪费、改革联合国这一全球机构
2026年6月25日 美国东部时间早上6:00 / 福克斯新闻
作者：彼得·皮内多
在一次独家专访中，美国驻联合国大使迈克·瓦尔茨表示，美国未缴会费并非联合国资金紧张的原因，他强调美国是联合国最大出资国，并呼吁进行改革。
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如今似乎有越来越多的全球领导人效仿唐纳德·特朗普总统的模式，甚至连下一届联合国秘书长的主要候选人之一都誓言要“让联合国再次伟大”。
马基·萨勒，塞内加尔前总统，是联合国最高行政长官职位的主要候选人之一。他同时也是特朗普外交政策的支持者。在接受布莱巴特新闻网采访时，他称特朗普“是一位和平缔造者”，尽管“目前在伊朗问题上存在一些分歧”。
萨勒称赞美国“是世界上第一个支持联合国的大国”，同时强调：“它们（美国）必须与联合国站在一起。”与此同时，他承认“联合国也需要改革以提高效率”，并表示：“我们可以与其他成员国携手打造一个更美好的联合国，或者说MUNGA——我们可以让联合国再次伟大（Make the UN Great Again）。”
萨勒并非唯一持有这种观点的人。联合国资深内部人士休·杜根曾在该机构工作数十年，他表示，由特朗普时期的联合国大使迈克·瓦尔茨首次提出的“MUNGA”口号，已经成为联合国内部耳熟能详的集结口号。
特朗普必须将联合国拨款与真正的改革挂钩，前外交官敦促
马基·萨勒（右），塞内加尔前总统、联合国秘书长热门候选人，已承诺“让联合国再次伟大”。（奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社；路德维克·马林/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社）
杜根曾担任美国驻联合国代表26年，期间为11位美国大使提供过咨询服务。他在特朗普第一任期内任职于国家安全委员会，目前领导多边问责协会——一家致力于监督联合国及其他国际机构问责情况的非营利组织。
他解释称，“MUNGA”运动的兴起源于联合国成员国日益增长的不满情绪：联合国深陷官僚主义泥潭，无法履行其维护国际和平与安全、发展友好国际关系以及促进国际合作的核心职能。
“‘MUNGA’是一个巧妙的口号，但我认为，事实上，联合国广大成员国长期以来一直在这个问题上存在不满，”他解释道。
现任联合国秘书长、前葡萄牙总理安东尼奥·古特雷斯将于2027年卸任，他自2017年就职以来已担任该职位10年。在其任期内，世界经历了数十年来最激烈的一些冲突和问题，包括新冠疫情以及乌克兰和加沙的战争。
在此期间，特朗普在两届任期内都对联合国持严厉批评态度。在去年9月于纽约发表的联合国演讲中，特朗普甚至问道：“联合国存在的意义是什么？”
特朗普称联合国“拥有巨大、巨大的潜力，但远远没有发挥出这种潜力。至少在目前，大部分情况下，他们似乎只会写一封措辞强硬的信件，然后再也不会跟进执行。”
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唐纳德·特朗普总统于2025年9月23日在纽约举行的第80届联合国大会上发表讲话。（金·穆恩/路透社）
然而，尽管存在这些批评，且有媒体报道持相反观点，但杜根认为特朗普“并未远离联合国”。
“他派出了自己所能集结的最强大团队，并且依然保持着高度参与，”杜根说道，并指出特朗普上周决定恢复向联合国人道主义工作提供18亿美元资金的决定。
“因此，所谓‘疏远联合国’的说法，是他的对手和反对者想要宣扬的论调。但事实上，情况并非如此，”他说。
与此同时，杜根表示，联合国内部许多人都认同特朗普的不满情绪。他将这种情况比作“当所有人都在使用超级计算机时，联合国仍在用算盘运作”。据此，他强调，各国广泛支持下一任秘书长能够“证明自己在这一职位上具备效力和效率”。
在接受布莱巴特新闻网采访时，萨勒表示，他的独特优势在于亲眼目睹了联合国的浪费现象。
“因为我曾在非洲，我看到有时这些（联合国）维和行动在浪费资金，毫无效率可言。”
联合国监督机构呼吁DOGE党团“审计”这一国际组织
美国驻联合国大使迈克·瓦尔茨于2026年2月28日在纽约联合国总部举行的联合国安全理事会会议上发言，此前美国和以色列对伊朗发动了打击。（希瑟·哈利法/路透社）
他将自己塑造成能够推动这些改革的候选人。
“作为一名政治领导人，我具备这样的能力，”萨勒告诉布莱巴特新闻网，并补充道：“当然，我们需要改革，我们需要优化管理，削减不必要的开支。我相信，如果能得到美国的支持，我可以与其他伙伴密切合作——尤其是欧洲、亚洲、中国、俄罗斯和非洲国家。”
归根结底，下一任秘书长必须获得足够广泛的支持，并避免遭到联合国安理会“五常”任何一个成员国的否决：美国、俄罗斯、中国、法国和英国。
在担任塞内加尔总统12年以及2022年至2023年担任非洲联盟主席后，萨勒表示：“我能够首先与西方和东方的所有领导人进行沟通。”
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杜根将下一任秘书长的选拔形容为“对联合国未来相关性最具影响力的决定……[关乎]联合国的企业文化是否将为成员国服务，而非成为拥有特权的官僚组成的自身深层国家”。
“我认为，最终能涵盖所有这些问题的关键词是‘问责制’，”他说。“在大型企业中，机构必须对股东、市场和利率负责……但联合国官僚机构并不会感受到这些压力，因此，我们需要在国际公务员队伍中营造一种加强资源使用问责制的文化。”
彼得·皮内多是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治撰稿人。
International ‘deep state’ prime target of Trump-style candidate for UN chief
Former Senegal president Macky Sall says he can cut waste and reform the global body with U.S. backing
June 25, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
By Peter Pinedo
In an exclusive interview, Ambassador Mike Waltz says unpaid U.S. dues aren’t behind the U.N.’s cash crunch, stressing America’s role as the U.N.’s biggest contributor and calling for reforms.
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There appears to be a growing number of global leaders embracing President Donald Trump’s mold, with one of the leading candidates to be the next United Nations secretary general even vowing to “make the U.N. great again.”
Macky Sall, the former president of Senegal, is one of the leading candidates under consideration for the top administrator role at the U.N. He is also a supporter of Trump’s foreign policy. In an interview with Breitbart, he called Trump “a peace builder” despite “some problems today with Iran.”
Sall lauded the U.S. as “the first power in the world to be with the U.N.,” while emphasizing, “They need to be with the UN.” At the same time, he admitted that “the U.N. also should be reformed to be efficient,” saying, “With other member states together we can build a better UN, or to MUNGA — we can Make the UN Great Again.”
Sall is not the only one holding this sentiment. According to Hugh Dugan, a U.N. insider with decades of experience in the body, the “MUNGA” slogan, first coined by Trump’s U.N. ambassador Mike Waltz, has become a familiar rallying cry at the global organization.
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Macky Sall (right), former Senegal president and United Nations secretary general top contender, has pledged to “make the U.N. great again.”(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)
Dugan served as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. for 26 years and advised 11 U.S. ambassadors during that time. He served on the National Security Council during Trump’s first term and currently leads Multilateral Accountability Associates, a nonprofit dedicated to holding the U.N. and other international bodies accountable.
He explained that the MUNGA push is feeding on a growing dissatisfaction by U.N. member states over the body being mired in bureaucracy and unable to fulfill its core functions of maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly international relations and promoting international cooperation.
“It’s a clever slogan to say MUNGA, but I think the fact is that there’s been a long-time dissatisfaction among the broader membership at the U.N. on this very matter,” he explained.
The current U.N. secretary general, former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres, will be leaving office in 2027 after taking office in 2017. During his 10 years as U.N. secretary general, the world underwent some of the most intense conflicts and problems in decades, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Throughout this period, Trump has been highly critical of the U.N. during both of his terms. In an address to the U.N. in New York City last September, Trump went so far as to ask, “What is the purpose of the United Nations?”
Trump stated the U.N. “has such tremendous, tremendous potential, but it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential. For the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up.”
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President Donald Trump speaks during the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 23, 2025.(Jeenah Moon/Reuters)
Yet, despite these criticisms and media reports suggesting otherwise, he believes the president is “not migrating away from the U.N.”
“He sent his very strongest team he could there, and he remains very strongly engaged,” said Dugan, pointing to Trump’s decision last week to resume U.S. funding to the U.N.’s humanitarian work to the tune of $1.8 billion.
“So, this idea of distancing from the U.N., it’s something that his opponents and antagonists want to promote. But in fact, it’s not the case,” he said.
In the meantime, Dugan said many at the U.N. share Trump’s frustrations. He likened it to “still operating with an abacus when everybody else is on a supercomputer.” In line with this, he emphasized that there is broad support for the next secretary-general to be someone “who can demonstrate effectiveness and efficiency in the role.”
In his interview with Breitbart, Sall said that he is uniquely positioned because he has witnessed U.N. waste firsthand.
“Because I was in Africa, I saw how sometimes these [U.N.] peace operations are wasting money, and they have no efficiencies.”
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Feb. 28, 2026, following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.(Heather Khalifa/Reuters)
He cast himself as the candidate who could enact these reforms.
“I have the capacity as a political leader,” Sall told Breitbart, adding, “Of course, we need to reform, we need to optimize the management, and to cut the cost that I’m sure if I have the support of United States, I can work very closely and put them together with the other partners — particularly Europe, Asia, China and Russia and Africa.”
At the end of the day, the next secretary general will have to gain broad enough support and avoid a veto from any one of the members of the “P5” Security Council: the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom.
After serving as president of Senegal for 12 years and president of the African Union from 2022 to 2023, Sall said, “I am able first to talk to all the leaders from the West, and from the East.”
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Dugan framed the selection of the next secretary-general as “the most consequential decision for the future relevance of the U.N. [on whether] … the corporate culture of the U.N. will be at the service of its member states and not to be its own deep state with entitled bureaucrats.”
“The big word in the end that I think encompasses all of this is the word accountability,” he said. “In a major corporation, they have to be accountable to shareholders and the market and interest rates … The UN bureaucracy doesn’t feel those pressures, and therefore, we need to create a culture of enhanced accountability among the international civil service for the use of resources.”
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.