{"id":35773,"date":"2021-05-28T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T00:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35773"},"modified":"2021-05-28T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T00:55:09","slug":"appointment-of-ambassador-arnold-chacon-to-serve-as-charge-daffaires-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35773","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Ambassador Arnold Chacon to serve as Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>05\/28\/2021 08:11 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Today, Secretary Blinken designated Ambassador Arnold Chacon to serve as Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires ad interim at U.S. Embassy Ottawa.\u00a0 A career diplomat with the rank of Career Minister, Ambassador Chacon is currently detailed from the Department of State to the National Defense University as Senior Vice President. Ambassador Chacon previously served as the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources and U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Ambassador Chacon\u2019s appointment underscores the United States\u2019 strong commitment to Canada and the Canadian people.\u00a0 He will lead the U.S. government\u2019s diplomatic engagement in Canada by advancing the Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership, including trade, climate change, COVID-19 response and recovery, and global and regional security issues.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The United States highly values its close partnership with Canada, and Ambassador Chacon is dedicated to advancing the bilateral relationship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_1380972656431057414mail_footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/28\/2021 08:11 PM EDT Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35774,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35773\/revisions\/35774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}