Biden to address UN General Assembly for last time as dictators, despots come to New York

President Biden is acceptable to present remarks astatine the United Nation’s General Assembly connected Tuesday greeting arsenic leaders and representatives from 134 countries determination into New York City for the convention. Though notably, the heads of immoderate apical authoritarian nations embroiled successful planetary conflicts crossed the globe volition not beryllium successful attendance. 

While Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and person of North Korea Kim Jong Un volition not beryllium successful attendance, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is acceptable to springiness a code Tuesday contempt planetary pushback amid Tehran's enactment for terrorism, interference successful November's U.S. predetermination and assassination threats against American politicians, including erstwhile President Trump.

According to reports connected Monday, Pezeshkian told reporters from New York, "We don’t privation warfare … we privation to unrecorded successful peace."

But his comments are not expected to beryllium taken astatine look value, and Biden, who volition talk up of the Iranian president, volition "rally planetary enactment to tackle the world's astir pressing challenges," White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, speaks with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield earlier the commencement of a Security Council gathering astatine U.N. office successful New York City connected Oct. 24, 2023. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden is expected to outline his administration’s priorities and imaginativeness for the planetary assemblage successful what volition beryllium his past code to the U.N. arsenic president.

According to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Washington has 3 large areas of absorption it volition stress during the week’s events, including continued efforts to "end the scourge of war" arsenic astir a 4th of the world’s colonisation lives successful "conflict-affected areas" amid mounting wars. 

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The U.S. besides plans to propulsion different subordinate nations to ramp up their enactment for humanitarian assistance workers portion besides moving to make a much "inclusive and effectual planetary system" by adding 2 caller imperishable seats to the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) for African nations arsenic good arsenic different rotating spot reserved for Small Island Developing States.

But arsenic the Biden medication moves to shingle things up successful the planetary assemblage portion immoderate authoritarian leaders are noticeably absent, 1 U.N. adept pointed to his interest that the U.N. is skirting the threats of contiguous by holding a gathering focused connected ambiguous concerns of tomorrow.

President Biden addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly astatine U.N. office successful New York City connected Sept. 19, 2023. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

"I privation [there was] a ‘Summit of the Present’ and not a ‘Summit of the Future,’ due to the fact that the aboriginal gives america a accidental to beryllium gauzy," Hugh Dugan, who served arsenic a U.S. delegate to the United Nations and arsenic elder advisor to 11 U.S. ambassadors to the U.N. betwixt 1989 and 2015, told Fox News Digital successful notation to the "Summit of the Future" lawsuit that was held implicit the weekend.

"A batch of hyperbole is going to beryllium heard this week," helium added. "If it were the ‘Summit of the Present,’ that would connote accountability now, whether we're effectual present and whether the U.N. is efficient."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Biden locomotion to the Oval Office connected Sept. 21, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Despite Thomas-Greenfield’s calls for "hope" during her Friday remarks, determination was a notable consciousness of gloom up of the acme arsenic monolithic planetary conflicts persist with nary evident extremity successful sight, including Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine, Israel’s combat against Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah, the pack takeover of Haiti, and civilian wars successful Sudan and Myanmar.

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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters past week that the Summit of the Future was a situation issued to nations past twelvemonth to travel prepared and "was calved retired of a acold hard fact: International challenges are moving faster than our quality to lick them." 

Guterres highlighted "out-of-control geopolitical divisions" and "runaway" conflicts, clime alteration and an unclear way guardant successful however to header with artificial intelligence, which is an tremendous contented that has prompted a contention mostly betwixt the U.S. and China implicit however to make and utilize it crossed aggregate sectors, including subject integration.

The Security Council meets astatine United Nations office successful New York City connected Aug. 28, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Global institutions and frameworks are contiguous wholly inadequate to woody with these analyzable and adjacent existential challenges," helium said. "And it’s nary large surprise. Those institutions were calved successful a bygone epoch for a bygone world.

"We can’t make a aboriginal acceptable for our grandchildren with systems built for our grandparents," helium warned successful a code that is expected to transportation passim the summit.

But Dugan again pointed to the contented of accountability, and helium questioned whether it is easier for the apical U.N. authoritative to propulsion for large changes successful the U.N. alternatively than measure immoderate ongoing mismanagement of spending, bureaucracy and interior authorities wrong the U.N.

Though 134 nations volition be this year’s event, the heads of 2 of the 5 imperishable UNSC seats volition beryllium absent arsenic China's Xi and Russia's Putin person sent delegations successful their place, a determination that has go progressively communal successful caller years.

President Biden is acceptable to code the U.N. General Assembly connected Tuesday for the last clip arsenic president. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Dugan, who served connected the National Security Council during the Trump medication wherever helium dealt with planetary organizations, said this signifier lets the authoritarian leaders debar the request to reply pugnacious questions mostly derived from Western nations and their determination allies, but it besides suggests they are "not acrophobic astir showing disrespect."

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When asked astir what this means astir the authorities of the U.N. and its legitimacy, successful peculiar the U.N. Security Council, which has go sharply divided betwixt the U.S., Britain and France versus Russia and China aft Putin’s penetration of Ukraine, Dugan said helium believes the U.N. Security Council continues to clasp important lasting successful the planetary community.

"I'm ever of the presumption that it does person legitimacy," helium said. "It's casual for america to say, well, it can't get a consensus, oregon it doesn't travel to a conclusion that we seek and, therefore, accidental it's not legitimate. I don't judge that is the case.

"It's existent trial of its quality is its quality to proceed to convene radical astir the table," Dugan continued. "Even if the caput of authorities isn't astatine that table, the delegations cognize it's excessively unsafe not to beryllium astatine that table."