The President-elect of the United States Joe Biden announced this Monday, November 23 his first choices for his future government, with in the crucial post of chief of diplomacy Antony Blinken and other former of the administration of Barack Obama.
The former secretary of state John Kerry, 76, will thus, if confirmed by the Senate, return to government as the US President’s special climate envoy, a sign of the importance Joe Biden attaches to this issue.
Antony Blinken, who was Assistant to the Secretary of State from 2015 to 2017, will head this huge ministry, replacing Republican Mike Pompeo. At 58 years old, this fervent supporter of multilateralism should in particular tackle the Iranian nuclear issue as a priority.
Alejandro Mayorkas, born 60 years ago in Havana, will be the first Hispanic to head the Ministry of Homeland Security, which notably oversees immigration matters. This son of anti-Castro refugees, former federal prosecutor, knows this administration well, of which he was deputy minister from 2013 to 2016.
“I need a team ready on the first day”
“I need a team ready on the first day”Joe Biden wrote in a statement announcing the appointments, while Donald Trump still refuses to concede defeat in the US presidential election November 3. “These individuals are as experienced and experienced in crises, as they are innovative and imaginative”, he continued.
The president-elect, who has promised to form a team representative of the American population, also selected Avril Haines, 51, to become director of National Intelligence, a position responsible for coordinating the various federal agencies active in this field occupied only by men so far.
The African-American Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a 68-year-old diplomat, who was Deputy Secretary of State for Africa, will become Ambassador to the UN.
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