Sharjah24 - Reuters: U.S. President Joe Biden will co-host a food security summit later in September while in New York for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield will announce later on Thursday.
The United States has strengthened its focus on food security since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine worsened a global food crisis that was already fueled by climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden's summit follows a food security event held by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the United Nations in May.
Thomas-Greenfield is due to speak in San Francisco later on Thursday on the future of the United Nations. The founding United Nations Charter was agreed in San Francisco in 1945.
According to her prepared remarks, seen by Reuters, Thomas-Greenfield will accuse Russia - a permanent, veto-wielding member of the 15-member U.N. Security Council - of "domination in its purest form."
"Some say this is a new cold war. That they don't want to take sides. That this is between Ukraine and Russia, or the United States and Russia," she will say, according to the draft of her remarks.
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