US Vice President Kamala Harris heads to Paris subsequent week to deepen the reconciliation begun by President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, whereas additionally addressing pandemic response and attending a convention on Libya
Washington, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 4th Nov, 2021 ) :US Vice President Kamala Harris heads to Paris subsequent week to deepen the reconciliation begun by President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, whereas additionally addressing pandemic response and attending a convention on Libya.
The five-day journey starting November 9 “actually indicators the energy of our alliance,” a senior administration official informed reporters Thursday relating to the journey introduced late final month.
Harris’s transatlantic travel is the newest act in an elaborate diplomatic ballet that has featured Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan every visiting France in October to show the web page on the Australian submarine disaster that broken ties.
Biden lastly met with Macron on Friday in Rome the place they shut the ebook on the quarrel, which erupted when Australia with out warning tore up a multi-billion-dollar submarine contract with France in favor of a deal for US nuclear-powered vessels.
Harris will proceed the fence-mending when she is acquired Wednesday by Macron on the Elysee Palace to debate “the bilateral relationship, European safety, the Indo-Pacific, international well being” and different points, one other senior US official mentioned.
As an indication of their “shared values,” the official mentioned Harris will take part on November 11 — a US Federal vacation honoring American veterans — in ceremonies in France commemorating the 1918 Armistice ending World War I.
Officials additionally mentioned Harris can even meet on the Pasteur Institute with US and French scientists engaged on Covid-19 — in a nod to her Indian-born late mom, a scientist who carried out breast cancer analysis on the facility within the Eighties.
On November 12, Harris will signify Washington at a world convention on Libya the place she goals to “present our assist for the Libyan folks as they transfer in the direction of nationwide elections,” a US official mentioned.
The vice chairman can also be slated to take part within the Paris Peace Forum, a convention organized by Macron that focuses on international problem-solving.
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