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WASHINGTON DC, KOMPAS.com – President-elect of the United States (USA) Joe Biden announced on Monday (11/23/2020) the names of a crucial cabinet post.
He chose former foreign policy adviser Anthony Blinken as secretary of state and former US diplomat John Kerry as climate specialist.
Biden also nominated the first Cuban-born Latino lawyer, Alejandro Mayorkas, to head the Department of Homeland Security that oversees immigration.
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The 78-year-old then named Avril Haines, a former CIA deputy director, as his national intelligence director. Haines will be the first woman to hold the position.
Later, Linda Thomas-Greenfield will be nominated as an ambassador to the United Nations with the status of a member of Joe Biden’s cabinet.
Meanwhile, Jake Sullivan, who was Biden’s security assistant when he was vice president, will serve in Biden’s cabinet as the White House national security adviser.
All of them are seniors in the Obama-Biden administration 2009-2017 and have a lot of experience in their fields.
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Kerry, who was the US Foreign Minister from 2013 to 2017, also signed the Paris climate pact in 2015 on behalf of the United States. But President Donald Trump later pulled the United States out of the deal.
He will be appointed to the national security council, and for the first time the council has a climate change specialist, Biden’s office said. AFP.
The former senior federal prosecutor was previously director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, then vice minister of the Department of Homeland Security during the Barack Obama presidency.
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Sullivan was director of the policy planning staff at the State Department, as well as the deputy chief of staff for the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
He was also the lead negotiator in initial talks on the Iran nuclear deal that Trump later withdrew.
“We have no time to waste in terms of our national security and foreign policy,” Biden said. AFP.
“These people are experienced and proven because they are innovative and imaginative,” he added.
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