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Sudan peace envoy Danforth to be US ambassador to UN
AFP, June, 2004
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ROME (AFP) — President George W. Bush named John Danforth, a former senator and peace envoy to Sudan, to the key post of US ambassador to the United Nations.
He will replace John Negroponte who is to become the first US ambassador to the post-June 30 Iraq, in charge of the biggest US embassy in the world.
Danforth, 67, may have to take up a key role in the continuing US battle to secure international support for its campaign in Iraq.
The United States is currently trying to get the UN Security Council to pass a new resolution that would smooth the way for the June 30 handover of power by the US-led coalition to an interim Iraqi government.
Relations between the Bush administration and the United Nations were strained by last year's decision to launch an invasion of Iraq.
The United States and Britain, which carried out ...
