UN's relevance in focus as world leaders gather

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "These goals were adopted at the United Nations in 2015 as a roadmap for improving lives around the world," Biden said.
53% : "He called for fundamental reforms to the United Nations, and said his administration "will support expanding the Security Council, increasing the number of permanent and non-permanent members."
50% : During his speech, Biden referenced the growing great power rivalry, too, noting that U.S. policy was not "about containing any country" and that he wanted to "responsibly manage the competition" with China to avoid conflict, but that international law had to be defended.
50% : "If we abandon the core principles of the United Nations to appease an aggressor, can any member state in this body feel confident that they are protected?" he said.
49% : Guterres, during his speech, said he was under "no illusions" about the ease of reforming the United Nations when three of its most powerful members - Russia, China and the United States - were at odds.
41% : Look no further than the United Nations Security Council and the Bretton Woods system," he said.
37% : He also said the world "cannot turn away from abuses whether in Xinjiang, Tehran, Darfur, or anywhere else," and argued that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was testing the waters of a new world order where "core tenets of the U.N. Charter" no longer have any relevance.

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