New York, 24 September 2024 (dpa/MIA) - US President Joe Biden has urged the world to not give up on peace in the face of conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East and Sudan.

"I recognize the challenges from Ukraine to Gaza to Sudan and beyond," Biden told the general debate at the UN's headquarters.

"Maybe because of all I’ve seen and all we’ve done over the decades, I have hope."

Biden listed the Vietnam War, Apartheid in South Africa and the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks as examples of where the international community pulled together to affect change.

On Sudan, Biden called for an immediate end to the civil war and told the world it had to stop arming the two feuding generals, who Biden said were tearing the country apart and fuelling a humanitarian crisis.

Since April 2023, de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the army have been battling for supremacy in Africa's third-largest country with former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and his militia.

Biden also said the international community had to keep supporting Ukraine after over two and half years of war following Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion.

"He set out to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free. He set out to weaken NATO, but NATO is bigger, stronger, more united than ever before," Biden said.

"The world now has another choice to make. Will we sustain our support to help Ukraine win this war and preserve its freedom, or walk away, let aggression be renewed and a nation be destroyed? I know my answer. We cannot grow weary."

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