The UN chief’s statement did not mention Joe Biden and Kamala Harris by name.
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Senior United Nations leaders hailed Democrat Kamala Harris’s election as first vice president of black and South Asian descent, praising her for breaking “another ceiling” and calling it a “milestone for gender equality “.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is always happy and “always welcomes any case where women leaders … where a woman manages to break” a new or “yet another ceiling,” her door said. -speak, Phane Dujarric, at the daily press conference on Monday. Kamala Harris was elected the first female vice president of the United States.
In a tweet, the president of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, sent his “warmest congratulations” to President-elect Joe Biden, 77, and Kamala Harris, 56.
He said Joe Biden has “a long history of support” for the United Nations and that the historic election of Kamala Harris as the first female vice president of the United States “is a milestone for gender equality.
“I look forward to deepening the ties between the UN and the United States and working together for a more secure and prosperous world,” Bozkir said in the tweet.
Kamala Harris’s election as the next U.S. Vice President is groundbreaking as she brings to the office a litany of firsts – she will be the first woman, the first black woman, the first woman of Indian descent, and the first daughter of immigrants to be sworn in as Vice President.
UN Women Director Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka described the prospect of having the very first woman as Vice President as “an extremely uplifting moment” for women and girls around the world, “especially for women of color”.
In a statement, Guterres praised the American people for a dynamic exercise in democracy in their country’s elections last week. >, the statement released by the UN spokesperson said.
The UN chief’s statement did not mention Joe Biden and Kamala Harris by name, using only the terms president-elect and vice-president-elect. Asked at the press conference about the statement not mentioning their names, phane Dujarric said Guterres “was talking about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris”.
Guterres and Bozkir’s comments on Monday were the first reactions from the world‘s top leaders to the election victory of the organization’s next host nation leaders, two days after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were declared the winners of the ‘a fiercely contested presidential election. election, which outgoing President Donald Trump still has not conceded despite not getting the 270 votes from the electoral colleges needed to win re-election.
Trump got 214 votes in the electoral colleges while Joe Biden won with 279 votes.
The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, said in a tweet that “today’s global challenges call for a renewed commitment from the United States For the common good that the pillars of science, education, and culture represent.
She also noted that she was “very happy to see a teacher” take on the high-level position at the White House, in the form of Joe Biden’s wife Jill Biden, who indicated that as the First Lady, she would continue to work full time.
The head of the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, said in a tweet that “American leadership is more crucial than ever for the world‘s most vulnerable”.
He warmly congratulated the two men and said the agency looked forward to working with the new administration “on global and national refugee issues.”
António Vitorino, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said on Twitter that the United Nations Migration Agency looked forward to working with the new administration “on managing migration for the benefit of all “.
Previously, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, congratulated Joe Biden and Harris, saying “we look forward to working very closely with their administration”.
After Trump made the decision to pull the United States out of the WHO earlier this year in response to alleged missteps at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the president-elect has repeatedly vowed to join the organization.
Joe Biden over the weekend also tweeted that his administration would join the Paris climate agreement on the first day of the new administration.
On whether the secretary general expects the United States to return to the Paris climate agreement, from which the Trump administration has withdrawn, phane Dujarric said the leader’s strong position of the UN in the defense of the Paris climate agreement has never wavered and that Washington and the UN have a “critical relationship” because “we are facing many problems in the world“.
Phane Dujarric added that there had not yet been direct contact between Joe Biden and Guterres since the publication of the election results.
