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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a leading moderate Republican who lost his seat in the United States Senate to John F. Kennedy in the 1952 elections, was appointed ambassador to the United Nations in 1953 by Dwight D. Eisenhower in gratitude for the defeated senator's role in the new president's defeat of conservative leader Robert A. Taft for the 1952 Republican nomination and subsequent service as ...
Category: Ambassadors to former countries. 14 languages. Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Cymraeg; ... Ambassadors to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (2 ...
Many countries, including the United States, call their UN permanent representative "UN ambassadors". Although a permanent representative holds the equivalent diplomatic rank of an ambassador (or chief of mission or high commissioner ), they are accredited to an international organisation, and not to a head of state (as a nation's ambassador ...
This is a list of the current permanent representatives to the United Nations at United Nations Headquarters, New York City. The list includes the country that they represent and the date that they presented their credentials to the UN Secretary-General. [1] The list is sorted by the official order in which the flags are flown in front of UN ...
On June 5, 2013, U.S. president Barack Obama announced her nomination as the new United States Ambassador to the United Nations. [42] Power with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on June 5, 2013. Power's nomination was backed by Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, [43] [44] and former independent senator Joseph Lieberman ...
That was problematic, because "relative isolation in a body like the United Nations is a sign of impotence," [24] especially given its ability to shape international attitudes. [25] She was ambassador to the UN during the September 1, 1983, Soviet shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, near Moneron Island.
John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator. He served as the 25th United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United States national security advisor from 2018 to 2019.
Dessima D Williams is a Grenadian diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada who was reappointed to the ambassadorship in 2008. Since 2022 she has been President of the Senate.