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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

Welcome to the show. We're dropping an extra episode a few days early in this feed, and that's because this is what is known as the

high-level week at the United Nations General Assembly. Every September, world leaders descend on New York to meet at the UN.

This year, while President Joe Biden will lead the U.S. delegation,

the leaders of China, France, India and Russia have chosen to give the summit a pass.

Russia will be represented by its foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. It has been

19 months since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and since then the UN has been in a bind.

How does it deal with a major violation of the UN Charter to maintain international peace, that is, when a member of its

Security Council refuses to even admit it has invaded another country. That country, Russia,

has veto power as a permanent member of the Security Council, and it means the UN itself

is more paralyzed than it's ever been. The situation makes America's

role particularly difficult. If it wants to work through the UN, there's only so much it can do.

So, what are the White House's priorities this week as it gears up for the main few days of

action at the UN? Linda Thomas Greenfield is the Biden administration's ambassador to the United Nations.

We spoke about her aims for this week.

I also put to her some strong criticism from Gordon Brown, a former British prime minister,

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