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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer and her Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (both SPD) congratulated the new US President Joe Biden on the inauguration on Wednesday.
Rhineland-Palatinate feels close to the world power because of the many US soldiers on its soil.
Dreyer emphasized with regard to Biden: "One of his most difficult tasks will be to bring the United States back together."
She added: «With Kamala Harris, the first woman in US history in the office of Vice President, he has excellent support at his side and together they will work to reunite the divided country and the United States quickly in the To advance the fight against the corona virus. "
She also associates Biden with the hope "that another tone of voice will find its way into transatlantic relations," added the Prime Minister, referring to the previous US President Donald Trump.
This also applies to the announced withdrawal of US troops from Germany.
Lewentz and she had vehemently advocated the maintenance of troops at Spangdahlem Air Base in the Eifel and asked their contacts in the USA for support: "I hope that our request to withdraw the planned withdrawal will now be heard more."
Interior Minister Lewentz is also optimistic about the further development of the transatlantic dialogue: “We have had good contacts in the Congress for many years.
Dealing with our contact persons in the headquarters is also friendly and trusting. "
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Dreyer and her counterparts from Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse had contacted representatives of the US Congress about the partial troop withdrawal from Germany announced in summer 2020.
Its two chambers finally pushed through a revised US defense budget for 2021 against Trump's veto, in which the troop withdrawal would have to be checked under strict conditions and could only be implemented with a long lead time.
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