{"id":94032,"date":"2020-01-19T06:55:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T06:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/ross-wilson-takes-charge-of-the-u-s-embassy-in-kabul\/"},"modified":"2020-01-19T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T06:55:06","slug":"ross-wilson-takes-charge-of-the-u-s-embassy-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/ross-wilson-takes-charge-of-the-u-s-embassy-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Wilson takes charge of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/January\/19\/US Ambassador.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Ross Wilson, a career diplomat, has taken charge of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as Ambassador John Bass completes his term in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am excited to start work @USEmbassyKabul during this crucial time in the history of #Afghanistan. Be it #AfghanElections, the quest for #peace, or other priorities, my country and I strongly support all #Afghans as they choose the future of this proud country&rdquo;, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Wilson, who spent nearly four decades in the U.S. Foreign Service before retiring, accepted U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo&rsquo;s request this month to lead the U.S. Embassy in Kabul until the Senate confirms a permanent ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Afghanistan is an extraordinarily challenging, but also very consequential, assignment and I am honored by the trust and confidence that Secretary of State Pompeo and the Department of State have placed in me,&rdquo; Wilson said in a statement he issued from Washington, D.C., before heading overseas.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Ross Wilson, a career diplomat, has taken charge of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as Ambassador John Bass completes his term in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}