Comments on: Make the UN Ambassador a Cabinet Level Position http://blog.psaonline.org/2008/11/25/make-the-un-ambassador-a-cabinet-level-position/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt Rojansky http://blog.psaonline.org/2008/11/25/make-the-un-ambassador-a-cabinet-level-position/comment-page-1/#comment-1425871 Matt Rojansky Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:36:13 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/?p=813#comment-1425871 Dr. Rice is certainly qualified. As for making the UN Ambassador a cabinet post, it was something that came up in our conversations in developing the PSA-UNF statement on the US-UN relationship. The feeling among many senior former officials was that it could interfere with the effectiveness of the Secretary of State as the President's top diplomat, and that was why no other country's UN representative sits in the cabinet. For those who haven't seen it, click here for the final statement that ran in last Thursday's New York Times: <a href="http://www.psaonline.org/article.php?id=434" rel="nofollow">http://www.psaonline.org/article.php?id=434</a> Dr. Rice is certainly qualified. As for making the UN Ambassador a cabinet post, it was something that came up in our conversations in developing the PSA-UNF statement on the US-UN relationship. The feeling among many senior former officials was that it could interfere with the effectiveness of the Secretary of State as the President’s top diplomat, and that was why no other country’s UN representative sits in the cabinet.

For those who haven’t seen it, click here for the final statement that ran in last Thursday’s New York Times:
http://www.psaonline.org/article.php?id=434

]]> By: Welcome | Project on Middle East Democracy http://blog.psaonline.org/2008/11/25/make-the-un-ambassador-a-cabinet-level-position/comment-page-1/#comment-1423632 Welcome | Project on Middle East Democracy Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:04:37 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/?p=813#comment-1423632 [...] According to Politico, the rest of the National Security roster is shaping up as well, with Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Jim Steinberg as Department Secretary of State, General Jim Jones as National Security Advisor, and Susan Rice as Ambassador to the United Nations. Some, including Raj Purohit at Across the Aisle, seem to believe that the position of Ambassador to the U.N. will become a cabinet-level position. [...] [...] According to Politico, the rest of the National Security roster is shaping up as well, with Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Jim Steinberg as Department Secretary of State, General Jim Jones as National Security Advisor, and Susan Rice as Ambassador to the United Nations. Some, including Raj Purohit at Across the Aisle, seem to believe that the position of Ambassador to the U.N. will become a cabinet-level position. [...]

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