UNITED NATIONS: President Donald Trump’s pick of the hawkish John Bolton as national security advisor is seen as the latest sign the United States is ready to slam the door on multilateralism, UN diplomats and experts say.

UN diplomats were shaken by the news of Bolton’s rise to the key White House post, which came with the world body under pragmatist Secretary-General Antonio Guterres still struggling to put relations with the Trump administration on a steady keel.

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