Biden declares in U.N. speech: ‘Decisive decade for our world’

NEW YORK, NY -- President Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered his first speech since taking office to the United Nations General Assembly and said this is a "decisive decade for our world" that will determine the global community's future.

"As a global community, we're challenged by urgent and looming crises wherein lie enormous opportunities if -- if -- we can summon the will and resolve to seize these opportunities," Biden said.

Biden used his first address before the U.N. to declare that the world stands and at an “inflection point in history” and that the world must act with haste to move quickly and cooperatively to address the festering issues of the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses.

With China tensions growing, he also declared America “is not seeking a new Cold War.”

The president noted his decision to end America's longest war, in Afghanistan, last month and set the table for his administration to shift the U.S. attention to intensive diplomacy with no shortage of crises facing the globe.