GENEVA - After years of US disengagement and confrontation, international organisations in Geneva appeared to breathe a collective sigh of relief at Joe Biden's presidential election win - but the anticipated honeymoon could be short.
In Geneva alone, the United States has, under Trump, cut its ties to the UN's top rights body, hamstrung the World Trade Organisation and begun withdrawing from the World Health Organisation even as the body strives to coordinate the global response to Covid-19. Celebration time "I think there will be a bit of a honeymoon," Elsig said, warning though that the blissful period could be"short".
But Biden said in a tweet:"On my first day as president, I will rejoin the WHO and restore our leadership on the world stage." The WHO did not wish to comment on its expectations for a Biden presidency, but the agency's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus struck an upbeat tone in his congratulatory tweet to the President-elect.
The global trade body is facing multiple crises, with the United States stubbornly blocking its budget, crippling its dispute settlement system and now impeding the selection of its new leader, having been without a captain since August. Nevertheless, even if some fundamental positions may remain unchanged, there will not be the same"gratuitous aggressiveness", the official said.
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