If Hillary Clinton becomes President of the United States of America, may appoint the current Vice-President Joe Biden, Secretary of state, sources say.
Biden, who is currently 73 years old - the main candidate for the selection of potential the head of American diplomacy, RIA "news" referring to the Politico. Biden ran for President together with Clinton and Barack Obama in 2008. After the election Obama made the initiative of former rival Clinton as Secretary of state, and Biden became Vice President and remained in that capacity two terms. Biden is popular among Democrats. He also has extensive experience senatorial and Vice-President in a number of foreign policy initiatives. The current Vice-President himself was thinking about the nomination for President in 2016, but did not want the idea. As stressed by Politico, Biden in recent months has reassured U.S. allies, fearing the election of Republican presidential candidate Donald trump. When trump said that the NATO Alliance is outdated and that the allies do not pay a "fair share" for their protection, Biden went to Latvia to convince the Baltic States that North America continues to have plans to protect them from " Russian aggression ". Biden was also a key "curator" of the Ukrainian leadership in the White house and spent the last years many talks on the phone and meeting with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
Clinton and Biden collaborated a lot back when Clinton first lady (Biden was then a Senator from Delaware). They both lost to Obama the Democratic primary in 2008 and continued working in high positions in the Obama administration. The ratio of the Vice-President and then Secretary of state was far from ideal - for example, They disagreed on the maintaining of troops in Iraq, expanding military presence in Afghanistan, military Scrivania in Libya and the question of arming "moderate" Syrian opposition, emphasizes the Political. According to the newspaper, Clinton feared the nomination of Biden, which is not inferior in popularity to the presidency in September 2015. But then Biden said he didn't have time to win an election, but because He will not have to register As a candidate. Thus, As stressed by Politico, Biden is not the only candidate for Secretary of state. According to the publication, the shortlist also includes former Deputy Secretary of state Wendy Sherman, bill burns, and Nicholas burns, each of which is considered to be a high level diplomat and former assistant Secretary of state Kurt Campbell, assistant Secretary of state Under bill Clinton strobe Talbott and Admiral James Stavridis.

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