united nations un secretary general antonio guterres and the biden administration will have a very active and positive engagement a spokesperson for the un chief said underlining that washington has a key leadership role to play across the international agenda including in the security councilstephane dujarric spokesman for the secretarygeneral on wednesday said guterres will likely speak to the new us president joe biden when appropriatethe us has a key leadership role to play across the international agenda including in the security council on matters of peace and security we also look forward to working with the administration to advance sustainable development human rights for all the worlds people he told reporters in response to a question at the daily press briefingdujarric said the un has seen media reports of expected executive orders to be signed by the biden administration on issues of climate global health world health organisation and the coronavirus pandemicwe welcome these reports we welcome these developments as soon as these executive orders are officially signed and become policy we will obviously welcome them more formally he saiddujarric said there is going to be a very active and positive engagement between the secretary general and the new biden administrationguterres looks forward to working with biden and obviously with the secretary of statedesignate antony blinken as well as with the permanent representative to the undesignate linda thomasgreenfield once they take up office he saidthe secretary general will be sending a letter to biden expressing that he looks forward to working with him and with vice president kamala harris dujarric added