UNITED STATES: ‘Tillerson Has Little Time for the United Nations’, Foreign Policy, 3 March 2017

António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, may be the world's top diplomat. But he is not at the top of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's list. Last month, State Department staffers recommended the two diplomats take a break during G-20 ministerial meetings in Bonn, Germany, to talk, according to two diplomatic sources briefed on the matter. Tillerson passed on the meeting, deferring to President Donald Trump's UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, to take the lead in dealings with the U.N. chief. The UN's own efforts to secure a face-to-face meeting or a phone conversation through the US mission to the UN also haven't borne fruit. 'Tillerson Has Little Time for the United Nations', Foreign Policy, 3 March 2017