Last Updated : Oct 09, 2018 09:18 PM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com

US Ambassador to United Nations Nikki Haley quits

US President Donald Trump accepted the resignation, Axios news site reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Haley discussed her resignation with Trump last week when she visited him at the White House, these sources said.

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U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned, a person familiar with the situation said on Tuesday, and the White House said she would appear with President Donald Trump at an event later in the morning.

US President Donald Trump , who met Haley in the Oval Office on October 9, accepted the resignation. He said that she had done a "fantastic job" and would leave at the end of the year. "She told me probably six months ago," Trump told reporters, '"I want to take a little time off.'"

Trump said there are a number of people who would like to do this job and that this is a more glamorous position that it was a couple of years ago, appreciating her work. Haley discussed her resignation with Trump last week when she visited him at the White House, these sources said.

It was not immediately clear why she quit.

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Trump wrote on Twitter that there would be a "Big announcement with my friend Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Oval Office" on Tuesday morning.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the two would meet in the Oval Office with news media present.

Haley is the latest in a long list of senior staff members to leave the Trump administration, including former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who was fired in March.

Haley, who has been one of Trump's most trusted advisers, would not confirm the report to Reuters when asked about it during a visit to the White House on Tuesday.

Earlier this year, Haley, 46, told Reuters that, "Every day I feel like I put body armor on," to protect U.S. interests at the United Nations.

Haley was governor of South Carolina when she was tapped by Trump to be the U.S. envoy to the United Nations. Elected as the state's first female governor in 2010, she was in her second four-year term when Trump picked her.

(With inputs from Reuters)
First Published on Oct 9, 2018 09:03 pm
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