France eager to build renewed relation with US

France on Wednesday congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris hours ahead of the presidential inauguration in Washington.

We are eager to build with President Biden a strong, useful, and renewed relationship. We have colossal objectives and challenges to take up together said government spokesman Gabriel Attal said during a briefing in Paris.

He said France was eager to build with President Biden a strong, useful, and renewed relationship.

Biden's announcement to reintegrate the U.S. in the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement are "absolutely inspiring for the work we'll have to do with the United States in the coming months," he said.