President Biden plans to strengthen a US commitment to the international community during virtual meetings of the G7 and the Munich Security Conference.
Biden’s plans include announcing an initial donation of $ 2 billion to the World Health Organization’s COVAX program, which aims to distribute vaccines around the world, administration officials said. A later donation would increase the total to $ 4 billion.
Speaking to world leaders, he plans to focus on the coronavirus pandemic, the global economic downturn and the climate crisis.
“Now, early in his term as President of the United States, he will have the opportunity to declare that America is back and the transatlantic alliance is back, and he will look forward to the core proposal that the transatlantic alliance is a cornerstone for the Americans. “Involvement in the world in the 21st century, just like in the 20th,” an official told reporters.
Also on Friday, the US will officially rejoin the Paris climate agreement. The US had earlier halted plans to withdraw from the WHO, and an official said Biden was likely to discuss the return of the US to the Iran nuclear deal negotiated in 2015.
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“We are eager to sit down and hear what the Iranians have to say. We want to devise a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear program,” an official said. “I think we have a way forward to return to nuclear diplomacy in a way that can ultimately put us on a positive path.”
“At the G7, the President is eager to strengthen his commitment to the return of the United States to multilateral engagement,” the official said, “and in particular to liaise with the world’s major democracies and market economies on a common agenda. . “
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About China, an official said the president is not looking for a confrontation.
“He’s not looking for a new Cold War, but he expects stiff competition and he welcomes it.”
The official said Biden believed that the US and other democracies “should all work together to pursue Chinese government practices and policies that are economically abusive, contrary to our shared values.”