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Saturday, December 8, 2018

US President Donald Trump names Heather Nauert as US ambassador to UN

US President Donald Trump has announced he is nominating State Department spokeswoman and former Fox TV news anchor Heather Nauert to be the United States;s ambassador to the United Nations(UN)



"Heather Nauert will be nominated," Trump said on Friday Dec 07,2018, before departing the White House for an event in Kansas City.

"She is very talented, very smart, very quick and I think that she will be respected by all."

The 48-year-old Nauert, whose nomination would require Senate confirmation, became the State Department's spokeswoman in April 2017 and was named earlier this year as the acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs.

She has been touted for the post since Nov 2018

Current envoy Nikki Haley announced in October she would be leaving the UN post at the end of the year.

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