Today Mr. Trump gave his first speech at the United Nations.

In his first meeting at the United Nations headquarters, US President Donald Trump criticized the organization for bureaucracy and poor management, calling for "truly courageous reforms" to maintain world peace.

US President Donald Trump sits next to Nikki Haley - US Ambassador to the United Nations at a meeting on September 18. Photo: Reuters

"In recent years, the United Nations has failed to reach its full potential due to bureaucracy and poor management, while the annual budget of the United Nations has increased by 140% and the staff here has doubled since 2000," Reuters news agency quoted Mr. Trump as saying at the United Nations headquarters on September 18.

Mr. Trump will address the United Nations General Assembly today, September 19, but on September 18 held a short event to call for support to change this agency.

The United Nations is an international organization whose goal is to maintain world peace and security, develop friendly relations between nations, and promote international cooperation.

In recent times, the major challenge for the United Nations has been the nuclear issue of North Korea – a country with a bad relationship with the United States.

Meanwhile, Mr. Trump has repeatedly asserted that the United Nations must change. In January, during his inauguration as President of the United States, he asserted that if there were reforms, the United Nations would be stronger and more effective.

During his 2016 campaign, he also questioned the US's financial contributions to the United Nations. Currently, the US is the largest contributor, providing 22% of the $5.4 billion in its biennial budget, and 28.5% of the $7.3 billion budget for peacekeeping missions, according to Reuters.

At the September 18 event, Mr. Trump reiterated this: "We must ensure that no one, no member country, has to shoulder a disproportionate share of military or financial resources."

A total of 128 countries were invited to the reform meeting on September 18 after signing a 10-point statement drafted by the US, which supported Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' efforts to "launch meaningful, effective reform". Russia and China, two of the UN Security Council's members, did not sign the US statement.

Mr. Guterres, meanwhile, also agreed with Mr. Trump that the bureaucracy of the United Nations had given him much to think about. "Our common goal is a 21st-century United Nations that is more about people than about process. We need to go hand in hand with the value of money and the promotion of shared values ​​- that is our goal"./.

According to Tuoi Tre