U.N Ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned

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On Tuesday, the U.S President Donald Trump said that U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is leaving the Trump administration at the end of this year. Trump spoke as he and Haley met in the Oval Office, shortly after word came of her plans to resign. He called Haley a “very special” person, adding that she told him six months ago that she might want to take some time off. Trump said that together they had “solved a lot of problems”. It’s the latest shake-up in the turbulent Trump administration just weeks before the November midterm elections. The resignation of Haley was a closely guarded secret. Congressional Republicans involved in foreign policy matters and some key U.S. allies didn’t get advance word from Haley or the White House.

Haley mentioned no reason for the resignation. She said, “No I’m not running in 2020”. 46-years old Haley was appointed to the U.N post in the month of November 2016. Last month, she coordinated Trump’s second trip to the United Nations, including his first time chairing the Security Council. Haley said, “It was a blessing to go into the U.N every day with body armor”. She added that her job was to defend America on the world stage. At the U.N., Haley helped spearhead the Trump administration’s efforts to combat what it alleged to be anti-American and anti-Israel actions by the international body. Trump said he was considering many candidates for Haley’s job and that a successor would be named in two to three weeks. Haley said, “I proudly serve in this administration, and I enthusiastically support most of its decisions and the direction it is taking the country,” Haley wrote. “But I don’t agree with the president on everything”.