As Biden struggles to fill ambassador posts, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., has been thrust into the spotlight. She spoke to PoliticoRyan about the Taliban takeover of Kabul and what’s next for U.S. relations with the Taliban.
Nearly all U.S. Ambassador posts are unfilled. As the Biden administration struggles to get nominees confirmed, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., has been thrust into the spotlight while leading Presidential delegations around the world.
She spoke to POLITICO's Ryan Heath in the days following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul about where she stands with Afghanistan’s ambassador to the U.N. and what’s next for U.S. relations with the Taliban. But first — because diplomats are notoriously tightlipped — Ryan strategizes with Alex Ward, author of POLITICO’s “National Security Daily” newsletter, on how to get answers from Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield about the Taliban.“There is tremendous damage being done by holding up our ambassadors from getting out to do the jobs that the American people need us to do to represent them overseas.
“We have stayed in contact with each other….We will continue to be friends and supporters of this ambassador as well as the Afghan ambassador moving forward.”With her confirmation delayed in the Senate, “I imagined that my colleagues sitting here in New York on the Security Council were wondering what was going on. I really sprinted to the finish line. I was in meetings almost 24/7 for four days.”
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