Pres. Biden addresses UN General Assembly on pandemic: “Our shared grief is a poignant reminder that our collective future will hinge on our ability to recognize our common humanity and to act together.”
"We've ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan," Biden said,"and as we close this period of relentless war, we're opening a new era of relentless diplomacy of using the power of our development aid to invest in new ways of lifting people up around the world.
The U.S. has helped revamp the so-called"Quad" dialogue -- its partnership with Australia, India and Japan -- to counter a rising China -- and Biden said that chief among the leaders' focus today was advancing"our vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific" region. Biden's Tuesday morning speech kicked off a week of global engagements. The White House said Biden hoped to turn the page from conflict to global cooperation and competition.
On Tuesday, Biden told delegates -- without referencing China by name:"We are not seeking a new Cold War or a world divided into rigid blocks.""Will we meet the threat of challenging climate, the challenging climate we're all feeling, already ravaging every part of our world with extreme weather, or will we suffer the merciless march of ever more of ever-worsening droughts and floods, more intense fires and hurricanes, longer heat waves, and rising seas?" he said.
The U.N. agreed to an “enhanced cleaning” of the main podium between leaders’ speeches,"changing out microphone heads, re-routing delegations to different 'green rooms,' and the use of air purifiers," a senior Biden administration official said. Staff could be seen swapping out the microphone head between speeches Tuesday.
"But our shared grief is a poignant reminder that our collective future will hinge on our ability to recognize our common humanity, and to act together," he added.
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