2/22/2019

AMBASSADOR/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Trump said on Friday [2-22-19] that he was nominating Kelly Knight Craft, the United States ambassador to Canada, to succeed Nikki R. Haley as ambassador to the United Nations, days after his first choice for the position withdrew from consideration. Mr. Trump announced the nomination on Twitter, writing that Ms. Craft ‘has done an outstanding job representing our Nation and I have no doubt that, under her leadership, our Country will be represented at the highest level.’ Ms. Craft’s elevation to the ambassador post at the 193-member United Nations would fill one yawning vacancy in the Trump administration’s diplomatic corps but leave another in Canada, where the relationship with the United States under Mr. Trump has been buffeted by trade disputes and other issues. She also would be taking up the United Nations position at a time when doubts have grown, among America’s allies and adversaries alike, about the Trump administration’s commitment to large multilateral institutions like the one she has been nominated to sit in.”

Annie Karni and Dan Bilefsky, “Trump to Nominate Kelly Knight Craft as U.N. Ambassador,” The New York Times online, February 22, 2019