Mexico’s Foreign Relations Ministry (SRE) sent a diplomatic complaint, and the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, harshly criticized a series of comments by U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar. The ambassador claimed that Mexico’s security strategy, “Hugs Not Bullets,” had failed.
Russia summoned the American ambassador on Monday to protest the alleged use of U.S.-made advanced missiles in a Ukrainian attack on Crimea.
The State Department delayed the start of the non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) aimed at rescuing U.S. citizens and Afghan allies seeking to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover last month, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, indicated Tuesday.
Americans who chose to ignore repeated public evacuation notices and no travel notices months before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan are at fault for getting stranded in the chaos-ridden country, top State Department officials suggested this week.
Britain’s Foreign Office has denied reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally intervened to block President Joe Biden from tapping former president Barack Obama to serve as America’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on a 78 to 20 vote.
The United States and Sudan will exchange ambassadors for the first time in 23 years, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has turned in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump effective October 3 and is planning to move back to his home state of Utah.
The U.S. ambassador to Greece has condemned a vandalism attack on his home in Athens, after paint was thrown at the wall outside his residence near the embassy.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will vote to confirm Ric Grenell as the next U.S. ambassador to Germany, ensuring the confirmation of what will be the highest-ranking ever openly gay person to serve the United States government. Grenell was nominated last year to the position by President Donald Trump.
