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Trump Nominates ex-Fox News Anchor Nauert as UN Envoy

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12/07/18
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Heather Nauert during a visit to a museum in Argentina

Heather Nauert in Argentina on November 30, 2018. Photo: @statedeptspox/Twitter

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U.S. President Donald Trump nominated State Department spokeswoman and former Fox TV news anchor Heather Nauert Friday as ambassador to the United Nations.

Trump told reporters that Nauert, who is in line to take over from Nikki Haley, had done well at the State Department.

“She’s very talented, very smart, very quick, and I think she’s going to be respected by all,” Trump said.

I am pleased to announce that Heather Nauert, Spokeswoman for the United States Department of State, will be nominated to serve as United Nations Ambassador. I want to congratulate Heather, and thank Ambassador Nikki Haley for her great service to our Country!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018

Nauert, 48, had been touted for the post since October when Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, seen as entertaining future political ambitions, announced that she was stepping down.

Nauert — a former anchor of “Fox and Friends,” among the television-loving Trump’s favorite shows — became the spokeswoman of the State Department with no foreign policy experience.

U.N. diplomats said privately they hoped that Nauert will be an advocate for the United Nations within the Trump administration, to counter the anti-U.N. views of national security adviser John Bolton.

Heather Nauert has been a terrific @statedeptspox . That job is to read talking points and explain policy. UN Ambassador, however, is very different job, usually requiring foreign policy and/or diplomatic expertise.

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) December 7, 2018

French Ambassador Francois Delattre told AFP that he looked forward to working with Nauert and expressed hope that she will “continue, like Nikki Haley, to be a bridge between Washington and the U.N. at a time when we more than ever need an America that is engaged with the U.N. in world affairs and committed to our shared values, beginning with human rights.”

The United States in June quit the U.N. Human Rights Council, which it sees as biased against Israel and where countries with questionable human rights records have too much of a say.

Nauert needs confirmation in the Senate, where Trump’s Republican Party holds a majority.

It is widely expected that the position would lose its current cabinet status, meaning she would be clearly subordinate to Bolton and her current boss, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

“I’m willing to give her a chance,” Rep. @tedlieu says of Pres. Trump’s nominee for UN ambassador Heather Nauert, and says he’d ask her “what her views are of Saudi Arabia and their brazen murder and torture and dismemberment of a U.S. resident journalist” https://t.co/QknV4tBFns pic.twitter.com/oRsALyc2E1

— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) December 7, 2018

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “very much looks forward to working with Ms. Nauert when she assumes her post and continuing the very productive and strong working relationship he enjoyed with Ambassador Haley,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters.

Praise for the appointment came from Israel, which has long counted on the United States to veto unfriendly resolutions on the U.N. Security Council.

“Ms. Nauert has stood by the State of Israel in her previous positions, and I have no doubt that the cooperation between our two countries will continue to strengthen as ambassador to the U.N.,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said in a statement.

Haley, in what could be a final diplomatic push, on Thursday failed in a bid for the U.N. General Assembly to condemn the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas for firing rockets at Israel.

But for the United States, the vote also succeeded in reinforcing its stance that the world body is biased against Israel.

“This White House has a low opinion of the United Nations, so they probably don’t view this job as quite as important.” -Bloomberg political reporter @sahilkapur on why Heather Nauert was chosen to be UN Ambassador despite having less foreign policy experience than Nikki Haley pic.twitter.com/3d2Zn10CyF

— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) December 7, 2018

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