UN leadership extends 'warmest congratulations' to Biden & Harris for 'historic election'

As Democratic presidential minee Joe Biden is declared as projected winner of US election 2020, top United Nations leership hailed his running mate Kamala Harris as America’s Black and South Asian-descent woman Vice President and applauded her for breaking “yet ar ceiling”. Leers including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and President of 75th session of UNGA Volkan Bozkir congratulated Biden and Harris and said that y look forward to deepening UN-US ties. 

Guterres’ spokesman Phane Dujarric said that UN Secretary-General is always pleased and “always welcomes any instance where women leers.. where a woman gets to break” a new or “yet ar ceiling”. Guterres, in a statement, also congratulated American people for vibrant exercise of democracy in ir country’s elections last week. UN spokesperson said, “He congratulates President-elect and Vice President-elect and reaffirms that partnership between United States and United Nations is an essential pillar of international cooperation needed to dress dramatic challenges facing world today”. 

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In a tweet, Bozkir and he of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka also congratulated Biden and Harris. While Bozkir extended “warmest congratulations,” Ngcuka described prospect of having first-ever woman as vice president as “a hugely uplifting moment”. Ngcuka also said that “Generation equality calls for more women in leership”. 

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‘US leership more crucial than ever’

While comments by Bozkir and Guterres were first reactions from world organisation’s top leership to election victory, Director-General of UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay and He of UN refugee ncy UNHCR Filippo Grandi also congratulated pair. Azoulay called for a “renewed commitment from US,” while Grandi said that “US leership is more crucial than ever”. António Vitori, Director-General of International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Twitter that UN migration ncy was looking forward to working with new ministration. 

 
Meanwhile, Associated Press called Democratic Challenger as winner with a clear majority of 290 electoral votes as opposed to 214 for Republican leer. Evidently angered by outcome, while US President has been on a Twitter spree questioning who allowed media outlets to declare a winner, his reelection campaign is reportedly planning a messaging blitz to fuel its argument without any evidence that US Election 2020 is ‘stolen’. Donald Trump's campaign has filed several lawsuits against election results in a few battleground states, while President h spent months making unsubstantiated claims that mail-in ballots could open election up to fraud.

(With inputs from PTI) 

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