UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for a ‘recovery’ between the US and China and suggested that the US could work with the communist regime on issues such as ‘climate action’.
Guterres was asked if he agreed with the comments of President Biden’s nominated candidate for UN ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who said during her confirmation hearing that China was placing an ‘authoritarian agenda’ at Turtle Bay.
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“Well, with regard to the United Nations, I can guarantee that we are strongly committed to ensuring that the UN is a beacon of all the values associated with peace, security, development, human rights,” Guterres told reporters. . “But what’s important to me is to say that I hope we will see a recovery between the United States and China with different dimensions.”
Although he said that the two countries had ‘completely different views’ on human rights, he said:’ there is an area which I believe is an increasing confluence of interests, and my appeal is that the two parties together with the whole country should strive for it. of the international community – and that area is climate action. ‘
He said he believed both countries would be involved in the parties’ 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and, among other things, to move towards carbon neutrality. He then called for ‘serious negotiation’ on issues such as trade, competition and technology.
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There has been growing concern for years about Beijing’s influence at the UN, with the Trump administration pulling the US out of the World Health Organization over its alleged prejudice against China.
While the Biden government is likely to take a less aggressive stance on China than the Trump administration, and a more conciliatory approach to the UN in general, Thomas-Greenfield acknowledged the UN threat from China.
“We know that China is working across the UN system to pursue an authoritarian agenda that is contrary to the institution’s fundamental values - American values,” Thomas-Greenfield said during her confirmation hearing to lawmakers in the Foreign Relations Committee. the Senate said. “Their success depends on our continued withdrawal. It will not happen on my watch.”
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Guterres on Thursday praised the steps taken by the Biden government in terms of the UN, including stopping the withdrawal from the WHO, rejoining the Paris climate agreement and more humanitarian aid in the Middle East. to promise.
‘All of this creates a very positive expectation and I can tell you that we will work closely together to fully support these policy changes, which is in line with our continuing position with regard to strengthening multilateralism and the understanding that only international cooperation and coming together is the way to meet the challenges of today’s world, ‘he said.
Ben Evansky, Fox News, contributed to this report.