President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, on Saturday completed the composition of his diplomatic team, which will have several officials from the time of Barack Obama, and that will seek to put behind Donald Trump’s unilateralism and foreign policy. to ‘restore’ the land.
The future president had already announced the candidate for the key position of State Secretary, a former Obama official, Antony Blinken at the end of November.
Runner-up in American diplomacy is Wendy Sherman, 71, former diplomatic adviser to President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) and secretary of state for political affairs in Obama’s second term (2013-2017).
The future Secretary of State played a key role in negotiating the Iran nuclear deal and had already worked on North Korean issues under Clinton.
Another appointment announced Saturday was that of Secretary of State for Management and Resources, a sort of operations director of US diplomacy.
This is Brian McKeon, a close friend of Biden, whom he advised for a long time while he was still a senator, and before holding various positions in the administration during Obama’s two terms (2009-2017).
With Blinken at the helm, this team will be tasked with “ repairing ” US foreign policy, Biden and Kamala Harris’s transition team said in a statement, “ as well as reinventing it. ”
As he had done when the name Blinken was announced, the future president wants to mark a clear break with Trump’s nationalist and unilateral foreign policy in order to reconnect with a decidedly multilateralist line.
The new faces of US diplomacy “embody my deep belief that the United States is stronger when it cooperates with its allies,” Biden said in the statement.
So the future president wants to “restore moral and world leadership” to the United States, backed by these allies. “The United States has returned,” he summarized.
Biden also officially appointed three undersecretaries to the state, three women who worked in the Obama administration. The nomination of each of these personalities is put to a vote in the Senate.