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President Obama sent Special Envoy for Middle East peace George Mitchell on an 8-day tour of the Middle East starting on January 26, 2009, in which Mitchell met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Israeli army chief of staff Lt. General Gabi Ashkenaz to discuss the peace process along with ...
On September 5, 2017, he returned to active duty as a senior foreign service officer and was appointed to serve as assistant secretary of state (acting) for Near Eastern Affairs. [1] [9] On 10 January 2022, Satterfield was appointed U.S. special envoy for the Horn of Africa, replacing Jeffrey Feltman.
John Rutherford Allen (born December 15, 1953) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general, and former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A). On September 13, 2014, President Barack Obama appointed Allen as special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to ...
In November 2015, Malley was named as President Obama's new special ISIS advisor. [5] After leaving the Obama administration, Malley was President and CEO of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels [6] non-profit committed to preventing wars. [7] In January 2021, President Joe Biden named Malley as special U.S. envoy for Iran. [8]
President Obama changed the timeline of withdrawing troops from Iraq within 16 months of his taking office as outlined in the election to 19 months after taking office. Obama appointed a Special Envoy for Middle East peace (George Mitchell) and a Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan (Richard C. Holbrooke). In 2013, Obama urged the leaders ...
University of Connecticut (BA) Columbia University (JD) Brett H. McGurk (born April 20, 1973) is an American diplomat, attorney, and academic who served in senior national security positions under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. He currently serves as deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and National Security ...
The United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (officially the Special Envoy of the President and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland) is the top U.S. diplomat supporting the Northern Ireland peace process. [1] The position is held by Joe Kennedy III, appointed by President Joe Biden on December 19, 2022.
Rashad Hussain is an American attorney, diplomat, and professor, [1] who currently serves as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.He previously served as associate White House counsel, [2] as U.S. Special Envoy of President Barack Obama to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), [3] [4] and the U.S. Special Envoy for strategic counterterrorism ...