Biden pledges 'relentless diplomacy' on global challenges
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U.S. President Joe Biden summoned the world's nations to forcefully address the festering global issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses in his first address before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
The president said the halting of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan last month, ending America's longest war, set the table for his administration to shift its attention to intensive diplomacy at a moment with no shortage of crises facing the globe.
"To deliver for our own people, we must also engage deeply with the rest of the world," he said.
He added: "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."
Biden offered a robust endorsement of the UN's relevance a nd ambition at a difficult moment in history, and sought to reassure wary allies of U.S. cooperation after a disagreements in recent months.
