Biden's choice for UN envoy signals return to US engagement

 

November 22, 2020



WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden's pick to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a low-key, veteran foreign service officer, reflects the president-elect's intent to return to a more traditional role at the world body as well as offer an olive branch to a beleaguered diplomatic corps.

If confirmed by the Senate, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, would be neither the first African American nor the first woman, nor even the first African American woman, to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. But she's a groundbreaking diplomat nonetheless. Thomas-Greenfield joined the State Depa...



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