President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has congratulated new U.S President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on their inauguration.
Congratulating the newly elected president and vice president, President Solih expressed readiness to work together with US to grow the friendship and develop the shared values. Further, the Maldivian President expressed delight over the decision of President Joe Biden to re-enter the US to the Paris Climate Agreement. The President acknowledged that climate change requires a unified response from the world community and the decision of US to rejoin Paris is a huge win for meaningful global climate change governance.
Joe Biden was sworn in as President of the U.S on Wednesday, offering a message of unity and restoration to a deeply divided country reeling from a battered economy and a raging COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans. Biden's inauguration as the 46th U.S President was the zenith of a five-decade career in public service that included more than three decades in the U.S. Senate and two terms as vice president under Obama. At 78, he is the oldest U.S. president in history.
Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, became the first Black person, first woman and first Asian American to serve as vice president after she was sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court's first Latina member.