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Officials said those affected by the changes will not lose their foreign service jobs but will return to Washington for other assignments if they wish to take them.
The Trump administration is pulling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial posts and other senior embassy positions as it tries to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel seen as fully supporting President Donald Trump's "America First" priorities.
Mission chiefs in at least 29 countries were informed last week that their terms would end in January, according to two State Department officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel movements.
All of them had taken their posts in the Biden administration but had survived an initial purge in the early months of Trump's second term that targeted mainly political appointees. That changed on Wednesday when they began receiving notices from officials in Washington about their impending departures, AFP reports .
Ambassadors serve at the president's pleasure, though they typically stay in their posts for three to four years. Officials said those affected by the changes would not lose their foreign service jobs but would return to Washington for other assignments if they wished to take them.
The State Department declined to comment on the specific numbers or ambassadors affected, but defended the changes, calling them “a standard process in any administration.” It noted that an ambassador is “a personal representative of the president, and it is the president’s prerogative to ensure that he has individuals in these countries who advance the America First agenda.”
Africa is the continent most affected by the departures, with ambassadors from 13 countries leaving: Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia and Uganda.
The second is Asia, with ambassadorial changes in six countries: Fiji, Laos, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Four countries in Europe (Armenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Slovakia) are affected; as well as two in the Middle East (Algeria and Egypt); South and Central Asia (Nepal and Sri Lanka); and the Western Hemisphere (Guatemala and Suriname).
Albania is on the list of countries that the US does not represent at the 'ambassador' level, while the US Embassy is headed by a Chargé d'Affaires. For a long time, the Trump administration has not taken any action to appoint an ambassador to Albania, while the candidacy proposed by the Biden administration was initially blocked in the Senate and was not nominated to the same position by Trump. The last ambassador to serve in Albania, Yuri Kim, who was nominated during the first Trump administration, is now out of the US diplomatic service, accepting early retirement, although she was considered a career diplomat.
Politico was first to report on the ambassadorial withdrawals, which have raised concerns from some lawmakers and the union representing American diplomats. /Adapted from Pamphlet/
"Amerika E Para". Ambasadorët amerikanë që janë për: "Amerikën E Dyta"kthehen DASH si punonjës social. Kush nuk pranon punën e re, ikën në shpaji ose në biznes privat.