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Trump selects Richard Grenell as special envoy for international missions!

2024-12-15 08:46:21Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Trump selects Richard Grenell as special envoy for international missions!
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United States President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he has selected his former intelligence chief , Richard Grenell , as presidential envoy for special missions, a post where he is expected to help the incoming administration tackle some of the toughest foreign policy challenges.

"Ric will be working on some of the world's hottest spots, including Venezuela and North Korea," Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social, without elaborating on the position's responsibilities.

A source from Mr. Trump's transition team told Reuters that Mr. Grenell will also focus on tensions in the Balkans.

Grenell reacted on the X platform: " Working on behalf of the American people for Donald Trump is the greatest honor of life. President Trump is someone who finds solutions to problems, keeping Americans safe and prosperous. We have a lot of work to do. Let's get to work ," he said.

During Mr. Trump's first term, Mr. Grenell served as ambassador to Germany, special presidential envoy for negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, and acting Director of National Intelligence.

He has long been one of Trump's foreign policy advisors.

After campaigning intensively for Mr. Trump in the November 5 election, Grenell was a leading contender for the position of Secretary of State, but Trump nominated Senator Marco Rubio for that position.

He was also mentioned as a possible candidate for the position of special envoy for the war in Ukraine, but Mr. Trump ultimately chose retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg for that post.

He was present when Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in September.

Grenell has spoken out in favor of a peace agreement that would preserve Ukrainian territory but allow for "autonomous regions" where Russia could remain in control.

He has also advised against NATO expansion to include Ukraine, saying, like Trump, that the alliance should not expand until current members meet the alliance's defense spending targets.

Members of the transatlantic alliance have pledged for years to spend 2% of their Gross Domestic Product on defense, but some countries have yet to reach this target.

Grenell campaigned intensively for Trump with Arab-American voters in Michigan, where the president-elect managed to win in a traditionally Democratic electorate, despite having in the past banned immigration from several Muslim-majority countries.

Grenell organized pro-Trump activities with Arab-American voters.

Presidents appoint special or presidential envoys to focus on global issues, crises, or specific diplomatic efforts.

North Korea and Venezuela are adversaries of the US, although Mr Trump is reportedly considering direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, hoping to minimise the risks of armed conflict.

During his presidential campaign, Trump called Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro a dictator.

Maduro said Trump's reelection was "a new beginning" for bilateral relations.

In his first term, Trump imposed tougher sanctions on the South American country, particularly on its key oil industry. Maduro severed relations in 2019.

Reuters reports that in 2020 Grenell secretly met with a representative of Maduro in an attempt to ensure the Venezuelan leader's peaceful departure from power after his reelection in 2018 was considered rigged by most Western countries, but no agreement was reached.

Republican US Senator Bill Hagerty expressed support for Grenell, saying on Platform X that he would "do a great job dealing with some of the world's toughest challenges."


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