Foreign leaders react to Biden's decision not to seek reelection

World leaders watching the U.S. predetermination person started to respond to the determination by President Biden connected Sunday not to question reelection, discussing their relationships with the U.S. president and offering thoughts connected his decision. 

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said: "I respect President Biden's determination and I look guardant to america moving unneurotic during the remainder of his presidency."

Mr. Biden is already facing calls from Republicans to measurement down, with immoderate saying that if helium is unfit to campaign, helium is unfit to service the remainder of his term, which runs until Jan. 20. 

"I cognize that, arsenic helium has done passim his singular career, President Biden volition person made his determination based connected what helium believes is successful the champion interests of the American people," Starmer wrote.

In a statement on societal media addressed straight to Biden, Polish President Donald Tusk said Mr. Biden's "many hard decisions" had helped support Poland, America and the satellite harmless and ideology stronger. 

"I cognize you were driven by the aforesaid motivations erstwhile announcing your last decision. Probably the astir hard 1 successful your life," Tusk wrote.

The trouble of the president's determination was besides highlighted by Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala. "It is undoubtedly the determination of a statesman who has served his state for decades. It is simply a liable and personally hard step, but it is each the much valuable," Fiala wrote connected societal media. "I americium keeping my fingers crossed for the USA that a bully president emerges from the antiauthoritarian contention of 2 beardown and adjacent candidates."

Ireland's lawman premier Michael Martin said helium heard of Mr. Biden's determination "with some sadness and admiration."

Biden, whose household has roots successful the country, was warmly welcomed when helium visited Ireland past year.

"This has nary uncertainty been the toughest of calls, but 1 done, arsenic ever, with dignity & class. I cognize that the radical of Ireland volition privation President Biden the precise best," Martin wrote Sunday connected societal media.

Ireland's premier minister, Taoiseach Simon Harris, besides thanked Mr. Biden successful a connection shared connected societal media, crediting the U.S. president arsenic "a dependable for reason, effectual multilateralism and shared solutions."

Harris pointed to Mr. Biden's enactment connected the Russia-Ukraine war and said helium had spoken with the president astir plans for a ceasefire successful the Israel-Hamas conflict, and called him "an unwavering dependable and passionate idiosyncratic for bid connected the land of Ireland."

During his 2023 visit, Biden "relayed the words of his parents that 'everyone is entitled to beryllium treated with dignity and respect.' Anyone who knows oregon has watched Joe Biden knows that these are much than words to him but the mode helium has ever conducted himself successful nationalist and backstage life," Harris said.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanked Mr. Biden "for his relationship and steadfast enactment for the Israeli radical implicit his decades agelong career," successful a connection connected societal media. Biden has faced unit from wrong his enactment implicit the Israel-Hamas conflict. 

"As the archetypal US President to sojourn Israel successful wartime, arsenic a recipient of the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor, and arsenic a existent state of the Jewish people, helium is simply a awesome of the unbreakable enslaved betwixt our 2 peoples," Herzog said. 

Some politicians, specified arsenic Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Union Commission, invoked issues facing the planetary community. Von der Leyen said successful a connection connected societal media about his withdrawal, "The EU and US are partners, friends and allies. We look communal challenges unneurotic - successful Europe, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific." 

In a statement, Australian Prime Minister Albanese commended Mr. Biden's service, noting "The Australia-US Alliance has ne'er been stronger with our shared committedness to antiauthoritarian values, planetary security, economical prosperity and clime enactment for this and aboriginal generations.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also spoke of the U.S.' planetary cooperation, saying acknowledgment to Mr. Biden, "transatlantic practice is close, NATO is beardown and the USA is simply a bully and reliable spouse for us. His determination not to tally again deserves respect."

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