TIL Desk/World/Washington/ In a surprise move, Indian-American Nikki Haley Tuesday resigned as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, becoming the latest casualty in the dysfunctional Trump administration just weeks before the crucial mid-term elections. US President Donald Trump, who accepted her resignation, said Haley has done an incredible job as the top American diplomat at the United Nations. Haley said she plans to stay in this position till year end.
In a rare, the US president made the formal announcement about Haley’s resignation in the Oval Office and applauded her work. “I wanted to do this (Oval Office send-off) because Nikki Haley, ambassador to the United Nations, has been very special to me. She’s done an incredible job. She’s a fantastic person, very importantly. But she also is somebody that gets it,” Trump said in the Oval Office in a hastily arranged session with reporters.
“She told me probably six months ago,” Trump told reporters, ‘“I want to take a little time off’.” Haley, considered as a moderate Republican alternative to Trump, ruled out a 2020 presidential bid and said that she would be campaigning for Trump’s re-election in two years from now. The first ever Indian-American in any presidential cabinet, 46-year-old Haley said this has been an honour of a lifetime to serve in this position.
