The might of the United States military should be the country’s last resort in resolving any global conflict, President Joe Biden said during his maiden address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. 

“Arms can’t defend against COVID-19 or future variants, collective science and political will, can. We need to act now, expand access to treatment to save lives around the world. For future, we need need to create a new mechanism to finance global health security,” Biden said. 
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His comments come in the backdrop of the United States ending its 20-year war in Afghanistan last month. Speaking on his decision to end America’s longest war, Biden said he set the table for his administration to focus on intensive diplomacy across the globe. 

“To deliver for our own people, we must also engage deeply with the rest of the world,” he said. “Instead of continuing to fight the wars of the past, we are fixing our eyes on devoting our resources into the challenges that hold the keys to our collective future. Ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the rules of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today.”

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“We’ve ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan. And as we close this period of relentless war, 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.”