Tag: US ambassador

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  New US Ambassador presents his credentials to Argentine President

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday received the credentials from the new Ambassador of the United States to Buenos Aires.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  US names first ambassador in a decade to Venezuela, but he will operate from Bogotá

  

  Amid a breakdown in relations and absence of US diplomats in Venezuela, Washington has named its first ambassador for the South American country for the first time in a decade. However he will carry out his duties from the capital of neighboring Colombia, Bogotá.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Pompeo announces US ambassador to Beijing is stepping down

  

  The US ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, is stepping down, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday. Thanking Branstad for his service, Pompeo said in a tweet that he had “contributed to rebalancing US-China relations so that it is results-oriented, reciprocal, and fair”.

• Thursday, August 13th 2020 - 07:18 UTC

  State Department tells ambassador and staff in UK to shape up on important issues

  

  U.S. Ambassador to Britain Woody Johnson has made insensitive and inappropriate comments during his tenure, including about race, religion and sex, the State Department’s inspector general has found, judging that morale in some parts of the mission has dropped.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Trump's ambassador in London questions Mrs. May Brexit deal and leadership

  

  Donald Trump's offer of a “quick, massive, bilateral trade deal” will not be possible if Theresa May's EU withdrawal agreement is approved, the US ambassador to the UK has warned. President Trump had previously said her Brexit proposal sounded like a “great deal for the EU” Woody Johnson told the BBC the UK was “in need of leadership” over Brexit.

• Wednesday, November 14th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Trump nominates retired Army general as ambassador to Saudi Arabia

  

  United States president Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated a retired Army general to be the country’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, as Washington faces pressure to respond to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.