On Friday, July 22, Principal Deputy National Protection Advisor Jon Finer traveled to Colombia and achieved with President Ivan Duque, President-Elect Gustavo Petro, Vice President-Elect Francia Marquez, and Colombian elected officers. He was joined by Countrywide Protection Advisor to the Vice President Phil Gordon, Assistant Secretary of Condition for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols, and Countrywide Security Council Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere Juan Gonzalez.  

For the duration of the take a look at, Mr. Finer thanked President Duque on behalf of President Biden for his partnership, significantly his incredible efforts on local weather adjust and regional migration. Mr. Finer also congratulated the incoming government of President-Elect Petro and Vice President-Elect Marquez and stressed the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to forging a close romantic relationship, dependent on the principles of equivalent partnership in between sovereign nations and creating on that established amongst successive United States and Colombian administrations around two hundreds of years.

Mr. Finer and the incoming administration reviewed the whole variety of troubles in the bilateral relationship, with a lot of places of widespread ground, including combating climate alter, financial progress, specially in rural regions, and increasing implementation of Colombia’s 2016 peace accord. They dedicated to have interaction additional in the months and months in advance.