Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks prior to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on her election to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2021.
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The Senate on Tuesday validated Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
She was validated by a vote of 78-20.
In a 2nd Tuesday vote, to formally designate Thomas-Greenfield as the U.S. agent in United Nations General Assembly conferences, the Senate backed her 78-21.
Thomas-Greenfield has a prolonged profession acting as a diplomat, with the majority of the time devoted to U.S. efforts in Africa. The Louisiana local was an ambassador to Liberia and assistant secretary of State for African Affairs throughout the Obama administration.
During her Jan. 27 verification hearing, she was peppered with concerns concerning her policy technique to China.
Critics, consisting of GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, stated she had actually gone too simple on China in a 2019 speech at an institute that had actually been presumed of pressing Chinese propaganda.
In reaction, Thomas-Greenfield called the speech an error and swore to restrict Beijing’s impact at U.N. General Assembly conferences.
