Biden Emerges as Last Believer in Multilateralism, as Other Key Leaders Skip the Annual UN General Assembly

The heads of the other four Security Council members will, for the first time as a group, skip the opening of the General Assembly session.

Eduardo Munoz/pool via AP, file
The United Nations headquarters at New York City. Eduardo Munoz/pool via AP, file

Is President Biden the world’s last believer in multilateralism? Next week he, alone among the UN’s elite members, will attend Turtle Bay’s annual gabfest. 

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