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Joe Biden presents nominees and key appointments in foreign policy and national security.
Wilmington, United States:
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a list of veteran diplomats and lawmakers who will make up his national security and foreign policy team, saying, “America is back, ready to lead the world.”
Biden, 78, at an event in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, presented his elections for secretary of state, national security adviser, secretary of national security, intelligence chief, UN ambassador and climate change envoy.
“It is a team that will keep our country and our people safe and secure,” Biden said as the six men and women stood behind him in masks on the Queen Theater stage.
“It is a team that reflects the fact that the United States is back, ready to lead the world, not to retire.”
Biden said that after he takes office on January 20, 2021 and Donald Trump leaves the White House, the United States “will once again sit at the head of the table, ready to face our adversaries and not reject our allies.”
“These public servants will restore America’s global leadership and moral leadership,” the former vice president said in a comment on President Trump’s “America First” policies.
Biden’s comments came shortly after Trump suffered further setbacks in his unprecedented effort to overturn the results of a U.S. presidential election on unsubstantiated fraud allegations.
Pennsylvania and Nevada certified the results of the Nov.3 election on Tuesday, a day after the state of Michigan did so, a move that prompted the General Services Administration (GSA) to launch the transition process.
As more members of his Republican Party came out demanding an end to the stalemate, Trump approved the GSA measure, effectively admitting defeat but refusing to budge.
“The GSA does not determine who will be the next president of the United States,” the president tweeted Tuesday along with a photo of himself in the Oval Office with the caption: “I do not grant ANYTHING !!!!!”
Trump, 74, who has made few public appearances since his defeat, later attended a traditional turkey pardon event at the White House, promoting the Dow by breaking the 30,000 points and thanking hospital workers battling the pandemic. of Covid-19.
He seemed to be heading indirectly into the election at one point, saying, “I say America first, shouldn’t walk away from that, America first.”
“Diplomacy is back”
The GSA’s determination that Biden is the apparent winner gives the president-elect access to classified reports on national security threats and will allow his top advisers to coordinate with federal health officials to address the worsening coronavirus pandemic. .
In revealing his cabinet elections, Biden said he had received calls from world leaders saying they were “waiting for the United States to reaffirm its historic role as a world leader.”
“This team meets this moment,” he said. “They represent my fundamental belief that America is stronger when it works with its allies.”
The list presented by Biden includes veterans of the Barack Obama administration and signals a return to traditional US diplomacy and multilateralism.
Antony Blinken, chosen by Biden as secretary of state, said the United States cannot solve global problems alone.
“We need to work with other countries,” said the former State Department official. “We need your cooperation. We need your association.”
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Biden’s choice to be America’s ambassador to the United Nations, echoed those sentiments.
“America is back. Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back,” said Thomas-Greenfield, a seasoned career diplomat.
“The challenges we face – a global pandemic, a global economy, the global climate change crisis, mass migration and extreme poverty, social justice – are relentless and interconnected, but they are not unsolvable if the United States is leading the way. “.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry, whom Biden chose as his special envoy for climate change, confirmed that the new administration would bring the United States back to the Paris climate accord from which Trump withdrew in 2015.
Cuban-born Alejandro Mayorkas was appointed director of the Department of Homeland Security, whose monitoring of strict immigration restrictions under Trump was a frequent source of controversy.
Avril Haines was nominated to be director of national intelligence, the first woman to hold the position, while Jake Sullivan was named national security adviser.
Former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is expected to be appointed Secretary of the Treasury, the first woman to hold the post.
“Delay the inevitable”
With Biden scoring a comfortable victory, Trump’s latest letter is to try to disrupt the normally routine state-by-state vote certification process and challenge the election results in court with claims of wrongdoing.
However, legal efforts have failed, along with attempts to delay state certification.
“The legal efforts of the Trump campaign have no factual basis, they have no legal basis,” said Bob Bauer, senior advisor to Biden’s campaign and a former White House attorney. “Its sole purpose is to delay the inevitable.
“Joe Biden won this election and we will defend this election successfully,” he said. “It is not about lawyers, not about supporters, not about Donald Trump’s ego or his dark fantasies.
“It’s about the right to vote and the choice the voters made in this election: Joe Biden.”
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