United Nations: Joe Biden will focus on ending covid-19 pandemiccoping with climate crisis and rescue human rightsWashington’s envoy to the United Nations has said democracy and international rules-based order in his first address as US president to a high-level session of the UN General Assembly next week.
During a press briefing previewing America’s participation and priorities for the session, US Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Other senior officials of the State Department will attend. New York for the 76th UN General Assembly High-Level Week and “will have a full agenda.”
“President Biden will speak on our top priorities: ending the COVID-19 pandemic; Combating Climate Change – Climate – Climate Crisis; and to protect human rights, democracy and the international rules-based order. These are all three challenges that span across borders. They encompass every single country on earth,” Thomas-Greenfield said on Friday.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Will meet with Biden on September 20 in New York City. Biden will address the General Debate on September 21, the first of his presidency, to world leaders from the prestigious General Assembly Hall.
The US envoy to the United Nations also said he expected several discussions on Afghanistan next week as world leaders gather at the UN headquarters for a high-level General Assembly session. “These discussions will reaffirm our commitment to the Afghan people, and especially to women and girls,” she said.
“And we will emphasize our concerns about the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and urge the Taliban to listen to the international community, to take measures that will reassure the international community, but more importantly, reassure the Afghan people.” Do that they will show respect for their rights,” he added.
“Some of those commitments, as you know, have been given in writing to the United Nations, and we will hold the Taliban accountable not for what they say or what they have written in these written commitments, but for their actions. And the international community is unified in that position across the board.”
The Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan in mid-August, promised an “inclusive” government that represents Afghanistan’s complex ethnic makeup, but has no Hazara members and no women in the interim cabinet.
He said Biden is committed to working closely with America’s allies and partners around the world to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are building a coalition of governments, businesses, international institutions and civil society to expand vaccine production, accelerate access to vaccines and life-saving treatments, and strengthen health systems around the world,” she said.
“Stopping the spread of Covid – Stopping the spread of Covid is our top priority, both moving forward next week here and everywhere,” she said. Regarding climate change, he said that this crisis affects every person in every country on every continent, and it is a particularly significant threat to many developing countries of the world.
Biden “knows we must move forward,” he said, adding that he and Kerry are strengthening US global commitments and building on the leaders’ summit on climate to raise ambitions at COP 26, 2021. United Nations Climate Change Conference.
He said that “democracy, human rights and the international rules-based order are under attack. Authoritarians have used the pandemic as an excuse to violate human rights and tighten their grip. Increasingly, they are moving their dissidents to other countries.” threaten and silence those who perpetrate acts of international repression.
“Big, wealthy autocrats have developed corrosive and coercive relations with small, poor countries. The Security Council must take note wherever horrific atrocities occur. There is no tension between sovereign rights and human rights,” Thomas-Greenfield said.
Underlining that Biden believes the US must demonstrate that democracy can deliver, he said Washington is hosting the Summit for Democracy in December to promote democratic renewal, human rights To set a positive agenda for giving and fight against corruption.
The US is also running for a seat on the Human Rights Council next month “because human rights are at the heart of our foreign policy just as they are at the core of the United Nations project.
“We recognize that our priorities are not just US priorities, they are global priorities, and will come next week to strengthen alliances and partnerships, to come together where to solve major challenges, to promote and protect human rights. There has to be a moment to come together. At every turn, and to demonstrate this body can and will uphold the international rules-based order that we have all worked so hard to build,” she said.
Biden will host in person first quad summit In the White House on September 24 which will be attended by the Prime Minister Narendra ModiAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
The four leaders are expected to review the evolving situation in the Indo-Pacific and discuss ways to keep important sea routes in the region free of any influence amid China’s growing military might.
Responding to a question on the mandate extension of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), he said that the UNAMA resolution was scrapped and that the only “significant changes made to the resolution were to ensure that we do not recognize undue recognition.” give” to the Taliban. But the resolution has not diminished our commitment to women and girls in Afghanistan at all. In fact, we are determined that we will focus on ensuring that the rights of women and girls are respected.”
Thomas-Greenfield said Biden would deliver his UNGA Address And return to Washington and continue to organize virtual events related to the United Nations.
“So, taking into account our concerns about COVID and encouraging delegations, to come up with a, not very large delegation – so we actually have a much smaller delegation than we normally do here in New York And the president is living for a much shorter time than he would normally be living,” she said.
During a press briefing previewing America’s participation and priorities for the session, US Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Other senior officials of the State Department will attend. New York for the 76th UN General Assembly High-Level Week and “will have a full agenda.”
“President Biden will speak on our top priorities: ending the COVID-19 pandemic; Combating Climate Change – Climate – Climate Crisis; and to protect human rights, democracy and the international rules-based order. These are all three challenges that span across borders. They encompass every single country on earth,” Thomas-Greenfield said on Friday.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Will meet with Biden on September 20 in New York City. Biden will address the General Debate on September 21, the first of his presidency, to world leaders from the prestigious General Assembly Hall.
The US envoy to the United Nations also said he expected several discussions on Afghanistan next week as world leaders gather at the UN headquarters for a high-level General Assembly session. “These discussions will reaffirm our commitment to the Afghan people, and especially to women and girls,” she said.
“And we will emphasize our concerns about the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and urge the Taliban to listen to the international community, to take measures that will reassure the international community, but more importantly, reassure the Afghan people.” Do that they will show respect for their rights,” he added.
“Some of those commitments, as you know, have been given in writing to the United Nations, and we will hold the Taliban accountable not for what they say or what they have written in these written commitments, but for their actions. And the international community is unified in that position across the board.”
The Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan in mid-August, promised an “inclusive” government that represents Afghanistan’s complex ethnic makeup, but has no Hazara members and no women in the interim cabinet.
He said Biden is committed to working closely with America’s allies and partners around the world to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are building a coalition of governments, businesses, international institutions and civil society to expand vaccine production, accelerate access to vaccines and life-saving treatments, and strengthen health systems around the world,” she said.
“Stopping the spread of Covid – Stopping the spread of Covid is our top priority, both moving forward next week here and everywhere,” she said. Regarding climate change, he said that this crisis affects every person in every country on every continent, and it is a particularly significant threat to many developing countries of the world.
Biden “knows we must move forward,” he said, adding that he and Kerry are strengthening US global commitments and building on the leaders’ summit on climate to raise ambitions at COP 26, 2021. United Nations Climate Change Conference.
He said that “democracy, human rights and the international rules-based order are under attack. Authoritarians have used the pandemic as an excuse to violate human rights and tighten their grip. Increasingly, they are moving their dissidents to other countries.” threaten and silence those who perpetrate acts of international repression.
“Big, wealthy autocrats have developed corrosive and coercive relations with small, poor countries. The Security Council must take note wherever horrific atrocities occur. There is no tension between sovereign rights and human rights,” Thomas-Greenfield said.
Underlining that Biden believes the US must demonstrate that democracy can deliver, he said Washington is hosting the Summit for Democracy in December to promote democratic renewal, human rights To set a positive agenda for giving and fight against corruption.
The US is also running for a seat on the Human Rights Council next month “because human rights are at the heart of our foreign policy just as they are at the core of the United Nations project.
“We recognize that our priorities are not just US priorities, they are global priorities, and will come next week to strengthen alliances and partnerships, to come together where to solve major challenges, to promote and protect human rights. There has to be a moment to come together. At every turn, and to demonstrate this body can and will uphold the international rules-based order that we have all worked so hard to build,” she said.
Biden will host in person first quad summit In the White House on September 24 which will be attended by the Prime Minister Narendra ModiAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
The four leaders are expected to review the evolving situation in the Indo-Pacific and discuss ways to keep important sea routes in the region free of any influence amid China’s growing military might.
Responding to a question on the mandate extension of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), he said that the UNAMA resolution was scrapped and that the only “significant changes made to the resolution were to ensure that we do not recognize undue recognition.” give” to the Taliban. But the resolution has not diminished our commitment to women and girls in Afghanistan at all. In fact, we are determined that we will focus on ensuring that the rights of women and girls are respected.”
Thomas-Greenfield said Biden would deliver his UNGA Address And return to Washington and continue to organize virtual events related to the United Nations.
“So, taking into account our concerns about COVID and encouraging delegations, to come up with a, not very large delegation – so we actually have a much smaller delegation than we normally do here in New York And the president is living for a much shorter time than he would normally be living,” she said.
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