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Diplomat Antony Blinken will become Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Security will lead a Hispanic American for the first time.
US President-elect Joe Biden wants seasoned diplomat Antony Blinken as Secretary of State and former Secretary of State John Kerry as his climate officer. This was announced by Biden’s transition team on Monday. In addition, Alejandro Mayorkas will be the first Hispanic to head the Ministry of National Security, which is in charge of immigration, among other things.
Former CIA Secret Service Deputy Director Avril Haines will also become the first woman in American history to become Secret Service Director, as announced by Biden’s transition team. He is supposed to coordinate the work of all the American secret services in the future.
Biden’s transition team also confirmed Monday that 43-year-old Jake Sullivan Biden would become a National Security Advisor. Sullivan was Biden’s security advisor when he was vice president. Career diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield will become her country’s ambassador to the United Nations. The American media had already reported on Blinken, Sullivan and Thomas-Greenfield.
Kerry Surprise
The appointment of former chief diplomat Kerry as special envoy for climate comes as a surprise. The 76-year-old, who was the US secretary of state between 2013 and 2017 under President Barack Obama, will serve on the National Security Council in this capacity.
“This is the first time that the National Security Council will have a special representative responsible for climate change,” said Biden’s transition team. With this, the president-elect expressed that global warming was seen as an “urgent matter of national security.”
Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) reacted with satisfaction on Monday to the appointment of the former US Secretary of State. “We look forward to working with the new US climate officer, John Kerry, with whom I worked closely as foreign minister during the Iran, Syria and Libya talks in Vienna,” Kurz said in a statement.
“The EU, which has already set itself ambitious climate targets, cannot save the climate by itself, but only together with the United States and China,” the foreign minister continued.
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