Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 vaccination program from Cornwall, England

Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 vaccination program from Cornwall, England

June 10, 2021

Noticias Telemundo

U.S. elected politician Joe Biden delivers remarks about the COVID-19 vaccination program during his first foreign trip to the U.K. to participate at the G-7 summit. Biden arrived Wednesday in Britain for a series of meetings with world leaders intent on stressing the message of his first foreign trip as president: "The United States is back."

"We're going to make it clear that the United States is back and democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and the issues that matter most to our future," Biden said, speaking to U.S. Air Force personnel and their families stationed at Royal Air Force Mildenhall shortly after he landed.

"Our alliances weren't built by coercion or maintained by threats. They're grounded in democratic ideals, a shared vision of the future, where every voice matters," he said.

Biden's remarks underscore his administration's efforts to use the Europe trip to re-establish America's place at the international negotiating table following President Donald Trump's isolationist approach to foreign policy, which frayed relationships with key U.S. allies.

The pandemic response and cybersecurity will be topics at the G-7 summit, Biden said. Recent ransomware attacks have disrupted organizations around the world, including hospitals in Ireland, Germany and France, as well as pipelines in the U.S. and banks in the U.K.