'Time to move on’: Biden urges unity on 'global issues' over 'continuing to fight wars'

In face of a disorderly and chaotic Afghanistan drawdown condemned worldwide as well as in homeland America, and ongoing political rift with France for bypassing Paris and reaching Aukus pact with Canberra, President Biden on Tuesday said in his speech at UNGA that it was “ time to move on” and unite on or key global issues such as COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.

Calling for “global unity” against common world threats, US president said that inste of “continuing to fight wars” world must unite to devote resources to challenges such as ending pandemic, dressing climate crisis, managing shifts in global power dynamics, shaping rules of world on vital issues like tre, cyber, and emerging techlogies, and facing threat of terrorism. 

In his maiden speech as United States president at UN General Assembly, Joe Biden said that America ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan so it could begin a new era of relentless diplomacy, and invest development aid in renewing democracies of world. In 21st Century, said US leer, “our own success is bound up in ors succeeding” as a global community and refore countries must “work toger towards a shared future.” 

Biden outlined United States’ commitment to rth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), underscoring Article 5 of alliance charter that he reaffirmed with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. article emphasises importance of ‘alliances’, stating that detriment to one member implies collective detriment on all. former US president h argued about relevance of multilateral NATO and h privately discussed withdrawing from treaty. Trump's former national security viser John Bolton wrote in his book Room Where it Happened, that former US leer h “clashed with European Union leers” at NATO summit in 2017 immediately confirming that he may pull out from alliance. 

Biden at UNGA said that it was a 'decisive dece’ where he wanted to focus on greater world cooperation as UN chief Antonio Guterres just hours before his dress warned of a rising "sense of impunity" among governments of different countries. 

"Our shared grief is a poignant reminder that our collective future will hinge on our ability to recognize our common humanity and to act toger," Biden said. "This is clear and urgent choice that we face here at dawning of what will be a decisive dece for our world, a dece that will quite literally determine our futures," he ded. “Our security, our prosperity, and our very freedoms are interconnected,” said Biden at UNGA, ding that US has been focusing on rebuilding alliances, revitalizing partnerships, and recognizing that it is essential and central to America's enduring security and prosperity. 

(Im: AP)