United States President Joe Biden said at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that the country does not seek “a new Cold War”, ...
United States President Joe Biden said at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that the country does not seek “a new Cold War”, AFP reported.
While Biden did not name any country, the statement comes in the context of growing tensions between the US and China.
The 76th session of the UN General Assembly is being held at the world body’s headquarters in New York.
Biden said that the US “is ready to work with any nation that steps up and pursues peaceful resolution to shared challenges even if we have intense disagreement in other areas”.
The US president in his address referred to the withdrawal of the country’s troops from Afghanistan last month, saying that it allowed his administration to shift attention to intensive diplomacy, AP reported.
“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,” he said.
Biden also promised to double the financial aid to poorer countries to help them adopt cleaner energy and deal with the climate change. The US president said he would work with the Congress to increase the aid to $11.4 billion (approximately Rs 84,000 crore) per year by 2024.
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