Biden Gives First Address to UN General Assembly as Some US Alliances Face Tensions

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President Joe Biden delivered his first address at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 21, declaring that the United States is โ€œback at the table.โ€

โ€œWeโ€™re back at the table in international forums, especially the United Nations, to focus attention and to spur global action on shared challenges,โ€ he told the assembly, emphasizing alliances within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and others.

Much of his speech was dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic.

โ€œBombs and bullets cannot defend against COVID-19 or its future variants,โ€ Biden said, claiming that โ€œscience and political willโ€ are necessary to end the pandemic. Some experts, including the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group,ย have saidย in recent days that the virus will likely become endemic and that treatment regimens, not vaccines, are the way to combat the virus.

The United States, Biden said, is โ€œreengaged at the World Health Organization and working in close partnership with Covax to deliver life-saving vaccines around the world. We rejoined the Paris climate agreement, and weโ€™re running to retake a seat in the Human Rights Council next year at the U.N.โ€

At one point, Biden appeared to make reference to his administrationโ€™s decision to pull U.S. military forces out of Afghanistan.

โ€œInstead of continuing to fight the wars of the past, we are fixing our eyes on devoting our resources into the challenges that hold the keys to our collective future,โ€ Biden said. โ€œEnding this pandemic, โ€ฆ managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the rules of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today.โ€

The president said the United States has contributed more than $15 billion toward the COVID-19 pandemic response and has shipped more than 160 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to other nations. That includes about 130 million doses of the U.S. vaccine supply, he said.

Byย Jack Phillips

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