Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:09 pm on 17 November 2020.
I thank Huw Irranca-Davies for that. I agree with him that the most striking advantage that we will see from a Biden presidency is the re-engagment of the United States in those huge international issues and organisations, which it used to be such a reliable partner in and has ceased to be so over the last few years. So, the fact that it will re-engage with the World Health Organization will mean that its ability and the world's ability to deal with coronavirus will be strengthened. The fact that it will not now turn its back on the Paris climate accord will be good news, not just for the United States but for the whole of the world. That is the most striking thing that I think you see, from outside the United States, as being to the benefit of us all.
We will use our international offices, of course, to continue to engage both in economic opportunities for Wales, cultural links between Wales and different parts of the United States, but also the political links that we need to build with the incoming administration. I think I said last week, Llywydd, that the Welsh caucus on Capitol Hill is to be reformed. My colleague the former First Minister visited the caucus, met people involved in it, and I look forward to the day when ministerial visits to different parts of the world, and particularly the United States, are available once again. Because that will allow us to take forward even faster the international strategy we debated last week, with the envoys that we have been able to appoint—two of them in the United States—and the diaspora that we know is there in the United States, willing to help us to keep Wales's profile high there and to engage on all that agenda that Huw Irranca-Davies set out in his supplementary question.