{"id":50865,"date":"2021-02-23T17:51:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=165946"},"modified":"2021-02-23T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:51:48","slug":"senate-confirms-united-nations-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/23\/senate-confirms-united-nations-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms United Nations Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The Senate confirms Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the US Ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<div><strong>Eric LeCompte, the Executive Director of Jubilee USA Network and a United Nations expert, releases the following statement on the confirmation of Linda Thomas-Greenfield as US Ambassador to the UN:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFrom climate change to the health and economic crises spurred by the coronavirus, Thomas-Greenfield has the right experience to help solve the urgent challenges facing the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has a strong and proven diplomatic background.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when the UN focuses on African countries struggling with access to vaccines, skyrocketing poverty and debt crises, her knowledge of the region will be an asset.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/23\/senate-confirms-united-nations-ambassador\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The Senate confirms Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. Eric LeCompte, the Executive Director of Jubilee USA Network and a United Nations\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50866,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50865\/revisions\/50866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}