Biden will emphasize aid and democracy to Ukraine if China and Russia do not join the UN
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President Joe Biden will address the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, where he plans to promote democracy and advocate for increased support for Ukraine.
For Biden, it is another opportunity to advance the ideas of diplomacy and democracy against aggressive autocracies, as he did at the recent Group of 20 summit earlier this month.
“(Biden) will lay out to the world the steps he and his administration have taken to advance a vision of American leadership, working with others to solve the world’s most pressing problems,” the White House national security adviser said. “is built on the basis of working with.” Jake Sullivan said at a briefing Friday.
Biden’s meetings, speeches
Leaders from at least 145 countries are planned to attend, with a few notable exceptions: France, the United Kingdom, China and Russia will all be absent, meaning four of the five countries that hold permanent seats on the UN Security Council will be present. Will not happen. ,
The absence of China and Russia gives Biden an opportunity to pursue relations between the United States and smaller, developing countries.
Biden is scheduled to meet on Wednesday with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a prominent leader of the Global South who has also been a proponent of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Lula has argued that the US and other Western countries are prolonging the war with their defense cooperation.
The President will also meet the leaders of the five Central Asian countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the first time a US President has done so jointly. He will also meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the first meeting since the prime minister won re-election last fall.
It will be the first time Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will personally attend a UN summit since the war began in February 2022. Pre-recorded speech to the body at last year’s session.
Sullivan said, “President Biden would like to hear President Zelensky’s perspective on all of this and to reaffirm his commitment to the world and to the United States, to the American people, to continuing to lead the world in supporting Ukraine.” are keen.”
A “substantial section” of Biden’s speech will be devoted to the war in Ukraine, Sullivan said.
Sullivan said, referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, “He will talk about the fundamental fact that the United Nations Charter … talks about the basic proposition that countries cannot attack their neighbors and occupy their territory by force. Can’t steal it.” “This was also a proposal that was at the core of the G20 statement last weekend.”
America’s support to Ukraine
Biden’s message of support for Ukraine is complicated by the fact that a handful of hardline Republicans in Congress are actively opposing more funding.
The White House is seeking $24 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, which it hopes will be passed The pledge to keep the government open will continue as budget talks continue. The measure has bipartisan support in the Senate, but has been blocked in the House of Representatives, where some members, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., have said they will not support any additional aid.
GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is in a precarious position on the Ukraine issue because his slim majority puts him at the mercy of every member of his caucus. Conservatives last week objected to McCarthy’s proposal to tie Ukraine aid to additional border funding.
Zelensky will travel to Washington, D.C., on Thursday to meet with Biden at the White House and talk to lawmakers. Unlike his visit in December, Zelensky will not address a joint session of Congress. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Zelensky would be “very, very persuasive.”
“Zelensky is a great spokesperson,” Turner said Sunday on CBS News. “He really makes the case better than anyone.”
It’s a position the White House agrees with.
“He has proven over the last 18, 19 months that there is no better advocate for his country, for his people, and for the urgent and continuing need for countries like the United States and our allies and partners to step up “To provide Ukraine with the equipment and resources it needs,” Sullivan said.
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