Major multilateral turnarounds for the United States — rejoining the World Health Organization and 2015 Paris Agreement — were among a burst of immediate directives issued by U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris after taking office on Wednesday.
Biden signed more than a dozen executive orders, memorandums and proclamations from the Oval Office, notably including moves to rejoin the U.N. health agency and the Paris climate treaty from which his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, withdrew the United States. Importantly, Biden sent signals that he intends to restore the damage from the Trump administration's hostility to multilateralism.
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