UN Ambassador says Trump’s Middle East peace plan is ‘the only way forward’

EXCLUSIVE: US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the UN that President Trump’s historic Middle East peace plan is “the only way forward” as he negotiates a resolution that would codify the Trump administration’s Gaza deal at the international body in a way that is “fully consistent with the America First agenda.”

Fox News Digital spoke exclusively with Waltz after he convened his partners and allies to discuss the United States’ intention to present a resolution to the UN Security Council on Gaza.

The resolution will approve the Peace Council, set parameters for Gaza’s transitional governance and launch the International Stabilization Force outlined in the president’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza.

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz (Getty Images)

“Only President Trump has the ability to bring all sides together, as he did in Sharm el-Sheikh,” Waltz told Fox News Digital. “He is the only person who can truly bridge the divisions between Israelis, Palestinians and other countries in the region.”

As the Trump administration pushes the Gaza peace plan, history shows the mixed record of U.N. peacekeeping operations.

Waltz said the president’s plan represents “the best chance for real peace in the Middle East in a generation.”

“And frankly, this is a real test for the United Nations: to step up and support the president’s plan and start implementing it,” Waltz told Fox News Digital.

“We have witnessed the death and destruction caused by the war in Gaza,” Waltz said. “If we can bring the international community together to come together and solve the problem using the tools of the UN, it is absolutely the right thing to do, and is fully consistent with the America First agenda.”

“This process of securing peace in Gaza with a Security Council resolution is really about bringing the UN back to basics,” Waltz continued. “That’s what we call it: back to basics. It’s about focusing strictly on establishing and maintaining peace and, in this case, supporting what the president has already put in motion.”

World leaders, including President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, pose for a photo during a summit of world leaders on ending the war in Gaza, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. (Suzanne Plunkett, pool photo via AP)

President Trump’s plan to end the Gaza conflict calls for Gaza to be a deradicalized, terrorism-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors. It also calls for the redevelopment of Gaza for the benefit of the people of Gaza and beyond.

Under the peace plan, Israeli forces would withdraw from the region and a temporary transitional governance of a technocratic and apolitical Palestinian committee, charged with ensuring the day-to-day management of public services and municipalities for the people of Gaza, would be created.

The US military will oversee the next phase of the peace agreement from its coordination base in Israel

This government will be under the supervision of a new international transitional body called the “Peace Council”, chaired by President Trump and other members and heads of state.

The resolution would essentially make the plan international law, a U.N. source said.

As for the timeline, a U.N. source told Fox News Digital that negotiations typically take months at the United Nations, but the U.S. mission hopes to achieve it in “weeks.”

“We are looking to move quickly,” the source said. “The ceasefire is fragile. We don’t want things to collapse one way or another. The sooner we pass this resolution, the sooner countries can start contributing troops to the stabilization force.”

U.S. President Donald Trump poses with a signed agreement during a summit of world leaders focused on ending the war in Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13. (Suzanne Plunkett/Getty Images)

The source also told Fox News Digital that representatives from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Qatar — non-Security Council members — presented the resolution with Waltz and the U.S. mission to the Security Council as a whole.

“We think it’s really strong,” the source said. “It’s about getting the humanitarian aid in, stabilizing it, governing, rolling up our sleeves, getting to work and making the international community pay for it.”

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The source said the resolution would create a mechanism, led by Jared Kushner, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that would ensure “dollars are used effectively with a private sector mentality.”

Rubio said the Trump administration is “seeing things we never thought we would see before, like the number of countries willing to participate in this effort, whether it’s money or personnel or both or expertise.”

“We’ve never seen such international cohesion behind something,” Rubio said. “So we need to seize these opportunities because they are really great and historic and important.”

At the same time, the source said the United States was “in the thick of the negotiations” but was “moving at lightning speed on UN terms.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens to a question as he speaks to the media after visiting the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel, October 24, 2025. (Getty Images)

“They don’t want to stand in the way of the best chance for peace we’ve had in a generation,” the source said. “And they don’t want to play the role of bureaucratization and then be responsible for resuming fighting.”

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The president described the peace plan as “the beginning of great concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all nations in what will soon be a truly magnificent region.”

“I believe it deeply,” Trump said of the plan. “This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.”