WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump announced his nominee for Secretary of The Department of State on Dec. 13.
Trump's appointment of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson was referred to the Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 11.
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Here is a list of the key positions open for the Department of State:
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Deputy secretary
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Deputy secretary for management and resources
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Legal adviser
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Chief financial officer
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Under secretary for management
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Under secretary for arms control and international security affairs
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Assistant secretary for legislative affairs
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Assistant secretary for intelligence and research
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Under secretary for civilian security, democracy and human rights
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Under secretary for economic growth, energy and environment
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Under secretary for political affairs
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Under secretary for public diplomacy
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Assistant secretary for arms control, verification, and compliance
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Assistant secretary for international security and nonproliferation affairs
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Assistant secretary for political-military affairs
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Assistant secretary for crisis and stabilization operations
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Assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor
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Assistant secretary for international narcotics and law enforcement
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Assistant secretary for population, refugees and migration
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Assistant secretary for economic and business affairs
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Assistant secretary for energy resources
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Assistant secretary for oceans and international, environmental and scientific affairs
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Assistant secretary for consular affairs
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Assistant secretary for diplomatic security
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Assistant secretary for African affairs
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Assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs
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Assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs
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Assistant secretary for international organization affairs
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Assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs
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Assistant secretary for South Asian affairs
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Assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs
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Assistant secretary for educational and cultural affairs
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Chief of protocol
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Coordinator for counter-terrorism
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Director general, foreign service and director of human resources
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Director, Office of Foreign Missions
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Coordinator for threat reduction programs
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Alternate representative to the United Nations for special political affairs
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Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking with the rank of ambassador at large
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Ambassador-at-large and coordinator of United States government activities to combat HIV/AIDS globally
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Ambassador at-large for war crimes issues
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Ambassador-at-large for global women's issues
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Ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom
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Ambassador, Andorra
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Ambassador, Antigua and Barbuda
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Ambassador, Egypt
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Ambassador, Argentina
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Ambassador, Australia
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Ambassador, Barbados
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Ambassador, Belgium
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Ambassador, Belize
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Ambassador, Venezuela
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Ambassador, Bosnia
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Ambassador, Brunei
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Ambassador, Burkina Faso
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Ambassador, Canada
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Ambassador, Central African Republic
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Ambassador, Dominica
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Ambassador, Guyana
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Ambassador, Czech Republic
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Ambassador, Algeria
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Ambassador, East Timor
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Ambassador, Sao Tome and Principe
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Ambassador, Sri Lanka
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Ambassador, Congo
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Ambassador, Dominican Republic
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Ambassador, Ethiopia
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Ambassador, Nepal
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Ambassador, Germany
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Ambassador, Nigeria
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Ambassador, Micronesia
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Ambassador, Brazil
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Ambassador, France
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Ambassador, Gabon
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Ambassador, Georgia
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Ambassador, Luxembourg
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Ambassador, Libya
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Ambassador, Greece
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Ambassador, Grenada
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Ambassador, Holy See
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Ambassador, India
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Ambassador, Ireland
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Ambassador, Afghanistan
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Ambassador, Mauritania
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Ambassador, Pakistan
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Ambassador, Italy
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Ambassador, Jamaica
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Ambassador, Japan
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Ambassador, Bahrain
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Ambassador, Cambodia
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Ambassador, Denmark
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Ambassador, Lesotho
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Ambassador, Morocco
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Ambassador, Saudi Arabia
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Ambassador, Swaziland
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Ambassador, Thailand
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Ambassador, Netherlands
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Ambassador, Tonga
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Ambassador, Kyrgyzstan
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Ambassador, Laos
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Ambassador, Libya
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Ambassador, Malaysia
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Ambassador, Mexico
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Ambassador, Monaco
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Ambassador, Mongolia
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Ambassador, New Zealand
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Ambassador, Norway
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Ambassador, Uruguay
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Ambassador, Papua New Guinea
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Ambassador, Bangladesh
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Terry Branstad
Ambassador, China
Iowa Gov. Branstad has a standing friendship with China's president Xi Jinping. China buys corn and soybean from Iowa.
Trump announced the appointment Dec. 7. It was referred to the Foreign Relations committee Jan. 20.
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Ambassador, Bolivia
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Ambassador, Liechtenstein
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Ambassador, Albania
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Ambassador, Kiribati
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Ambassador, Angola
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Ambassador, Armenia
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Ambassador, Austria
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Ambassador, Azerbaijan
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Ambassador, Belarus
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Ambassador, Benin
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Ambassador, Botswana
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Ambassador, Bulgaria
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Ambassador, Burundi
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Ambassador, Cameroon
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Ambassador, Cape Verde
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Ambassador, Chad
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Ambassador, Chile
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Ambassador, Colombia
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Ambassador, Costa Rica
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Ambassador, Ivory Coast
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Ambassador, Croatia
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Ambassador, Cyprus
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Ambassador, Djibouti
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Ambassador, Ecuador
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Ambassador, El Salvador
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Ambassador, Equatorial Guinea
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Ambassador, Estonia
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Ambassador, Finland
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Ambassador, Ghana
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Ambassador, Guatemala
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Ambassador, Guinea
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Ambassador, Guinea-Bissau
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Ambassador, Haiti
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Ambassador, Honduras
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Ambassador, Hungary
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Ambassador, Iceland
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Ambassador, Indonesia
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Ambassador, Iraq
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Ambassador, Kazakhstan
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Ambassador, Kenya
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Ambassador, Korea
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Ambassador, Kosovo
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Ambassador, Latvia
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Ambassador, Lebanon
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Ambassador, Liberia
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Ambassador, Lithuania
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Ambassador, Macedonia
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Ambassador, Madagascar
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Ambassador, Malawi
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Ambassador, Maldives
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Ambassador, Mali
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Ambassador, Malta
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Ambassador, Mauritius
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Ambassador, Moldova
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Ambassador, Montenegro
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Ambassador, Mozambique
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Ambassador, Namibia
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Ambassador, Nauru
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Ambassador, Nicaragua
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Ambassador, Niger
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Ambassador, Palau
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Ambassador, Panama
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Ambassador, Paraguay
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Ambassador, Peru
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Ambassador, Poland
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Ambassador, Portugal
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Ambassador, Rwanda
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Ambassador, San Marino
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Ambassador, Senegal
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Ambassador, Seychelles
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Ambassador, Sierra Leone
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Ambassador, Singapore
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Ambassador, Slovenia
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Ambassador, South Africa
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Ambassador, South Sudan
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Ambassador, Suriname
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Ambassador, Tajikistan
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Ambassador, Congo Republic
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Ambassador, Fiji
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Ambassador, Gambia
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Ambassador, Marshall Islands
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Ambassador, Philippines
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Ambassador, Trinidad and Tobago
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Ambassador, Tunisia
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Ambassador, Turkey
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Ambassador, Uganda
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Ambassador, Uzbekistan
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Ambassador, Vanuatu
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Ambassador, Yemen
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Ambassador, Zambia
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Ambassador, Zimbabwe
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Ambassador, Romania
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Ambassador, Russia
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Ambassador, St. Lucia
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Ambassador, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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Ambassador, Samoa
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Ambassador, Serbia
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Ambassador, Slovakia
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Ambassador, Vietnam
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Ambassador, Solomon Islands
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Ambassador, Spain
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Ambassador, St. Kitts and Nevis
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Ambassador, Eritrea
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Ambassador, Israel
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Ambassador, Kuwait
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Ambassador, Qatar
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Ambassador, Oman
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Ambassador, Sweden
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Ambassador, Switzerland
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Ambassador, Syria
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Ambassador, Bahamas
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Ambassador, Togo
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Ambassador, Turkmenistan
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Ambassador, Tuvalu
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Ambassador, Ukraine
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Ambassador, Burma
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Ambassador, Comoros
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Ambassador, United Arab Emirates
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Ambassador, United Kingdom
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Ambassador, Tanzania
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Ambassador, Cuba
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Ambassador, Somalia
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Ambassador, Sudan
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Permanent representative of the United States on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations
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Permanent representative of the United States to the Organization of American States
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Public delegate, alternate U.S. representative to the U.N. General Assembly
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Public delegate, alternate U.S. representative to the U.N. General Assembly
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Public delegate, U.S. representative to the U.N. General Assembly
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Representative of the United States to the African Union
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Representative of the United States to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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Representative of the United States to the European Union
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Representative of the United States to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
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Representative of the United States to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
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Representative of the United States to the Vienna office of the United Nations and representative of the United States to the International Atomic Energy Agency
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Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
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Representative to the United Nations for management and reform
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Special envoy for North Korea human rights issues
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Special representative of the president for nuclear non-proliferation with the rank of ambassador
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U.S. representative to the Office of the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva
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United States deputy representative to the United Nations
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United States representative to the United Nations
Nikki Haley
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Ambassador at large for war crimes issues
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U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
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U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
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U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
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U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
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Special envoy to promote religious freedom of religious minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia with the rank of ambassador
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U.S. representative to the Conference on Disarmament, with the rank of ambassador
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Representative of the U.S. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, with rank of ambassador
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U.S. representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, with rank of ambassador
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Special representative of the president for nuclear nonproliferation, with the rank of ambassador
