US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley resigns

International Desk: US President Donald Trump has accepted Nikki Haley's resignation as US ambassador to the United Nations, saying she would be leaving his administration at the end of the year.

In the White House's Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump called the ambassador a "very special" person "who gets it", adding that she told him six months ago that she might want to take some time off.

Trump said that together they "solved a lot of problems".

Haley, 46, said she had no immediate plans, and denied she would be running for president in 2020.

Trump said he was considering many candidates for Haley's job and that a successor would be named in two to three weeks.

Haley was appointed to the UN post in November 2016.

Before she was named by Trump to her UN post, Haley was governor of South Carolina, the first woman to hold the post. She was re-elected in 2014.

Source: Aljazeera


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