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"Palestinians should have the right to live in their own state" US President Biden Addresses in UNGA
"Palestinians should have the right to live in their own state" US President Biden Addresses in UNGA
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00:00Innocent civilians in Gaza are also going through hell. Thousands and thousands killed,
00:05including aid workers. Too many families dislocated, crowding in the tents,
00:11facing a dire humanitarian situation. They did not ask for this war that Hamas started.
00:19I put forward with Qatar and Egypt a ceasefire and hostage deal. It's been endorsed by the
00:26UN Security Council. Now is the time for the parties to finalize its terms, bring the hostages
00:32home, and secure security for Israel and Gaza free of Hamas grip, ease the suffering in Gaza,
00:40and end this war. On October 7th,
00:51since October 7th, we've also been determined to prevent a wider war that engulfs the entire
00:58region. Hezbollah, unprovoked, joined the October 7th attack, launching
01:05rockets into Israel. Almost a year later, too many on each side of the
01:10Israeli-Lebanon border remain displaced. Full-scale war is not in anyone's interest.
01:16Even as the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible.
01:22In fact, it remains the only path to lasting security, to allow the residents from both
01:27countries to return to their homes and the border safely. And that's what we're working
01:32tirelessly to achieve. As we look ahead, we must also address the rise of violence
01:40against innocent Palestinians on the West Bank and set the conditions for a better future,
01:45including a two-state solution where the world, where Israel enjoys security and peace
01:51and full recognition and normalized relations with all its neighbors, where Palestinians
01:55live in security, dignity, and self-determination in a state of their own.
02:10Progress toward peace will put us in a stronger position to deal with the ongoing threat posed
02:15by Iran. Together, we must deny oxygen to its terrorist proxies, which have called for more
02:22October 7th and ensure that Iran will never, ever obtain a nuclear weapon. Gaza is not the
02:30only conflict that deserves our outrage. In Sudan, a bloody civil war unleashed one of the
02:36world's worst humanitarian crisis. Eight million, eight million on the brink of famine. Hundreds of
02:44thousands already there. Atrocities are for and elsewhere. The United States has led the world
02:51in providing humanitarian aid to Sudan. And with our partners, we've led diplomatic talks to try
02:57to silence the guns and avert a wider famine. The world needs to stop arming the generals,
03:06to speak with one voice and tell them, stop tearing your country apart,
03:11stop blocking aid to the Sudanese people, end this war now.
03:15But people need more than the absence of war. They need a chance, a chance to live in dignity.
03:29They need to be protected from the ravages of climate change, hunger, and disease.
03:35Our administration has arrived, has invested over $150 billion to make progress
03:42and other sustainable development goals. It includes $20 billion for food security,
03:48over $50 billion for global health. We've mobilized billions more in private sector
03:54investment. We've taken the most ambitious climate action in history. We've moved to
04:00rejoin the Paris Agreement on day one. And today, my country is finally on track to cut emissions
04:08in half by 2030. On track to honor my pledge to quadruple climate financing
04:15to developing nations with $11 billion thus far this year. We've rejoined the World Health
04:22Organization, donating 700 million doses of COVID vaccine to 117 countries. We must now move quickly
04:31to face Mpox outbreak in Africa. We're prepared to commit $500 million to help African countries
04:38prevent and respond to Mpox and to donate 1 million doses of Mpox vaccine now.
04:50We call on our partners to match our pledge and make this a billion-dollar commitment
04:55to the people of Africa. Beyond the core necessities of food and health,
05:00the United States, the G7, and our partners have embarked on an ambitious initiative
05:06to mobilize and deliver significant finance to the developing world.
05:10We're working to help countries build out their infrastructure, to clean energy transition,
05:16to the digital transformation, to lay new economic foundations for a prosperous future.
05:22It's called the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment.
05:26We've already started to see the fruits of this emerge in Southern Africa, in Southeast Asia,
05:32and in the Americas. We have to keep it going. I want to get things done together. In order to
05:39do that, we must build a stronger, more effective, and more inclusive United Nations.
05:45The UN needs to adapt and bring new voices and new perspectives. That's why we support
05:51reforming and expanding the membership of the UN Security Council.
06:02Our UN Ambassador just laid out our detailed vision to reflect today's world,
06:08not yesterday's. It's time to move forward. The Security Council, like the UN itself,
06:13needs to go back to the job of making peace, of brokering deals to end wars and suffering.
06:22And to stop the spread of the most dangerous weapons, of stabilizing troubled regions in
06:29East Africa, from East Africa to Haiti, to Kenya-led mission that's working alongside
06:34the Haitian people to turn the tide. We also have a responsibility to prepare our
06:41citizens for the future. We'll see more technological change, I argue, in the next
06:47two to ten years than we have in the last 50 years. Artificial intelligence is going
06:53to change our ways of life, our ways of work, and our ways of war. It could usher in scientific
07:00progress at a pace never seen before, and much of it could make our lives better.
07:07But AI also brings profound risks, from deep fakes to disinformation to novel pathogens
07:15to bioweapons. We've worked at home and abroad to define the new norms and standards.
07:22This year, we achieved the first-ever General Assembly resolution on AI
07:28to start developing global rules, global rules of the road. We also announced a declaration
07:35of – on the responsible use of AI, joined by 60 countries in this chamber.
07:42But let's be honest. This is just the tip of the iceberg,
07:46what we need to do to manage this new technology.