David Hale arrives in Islamabad to take up new assignment as US ambassador

David Hale arrives in Islamabad to take up new assignment as US ambassador
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ISLAMABAD, Nov 18 (APP): Ambassador David Hale, a career diplomat, arrived here Wednesday to take up his new assignment as the US ambassador to Islamabad.
He will present his credentials to President Mamnoon Hussain at the earliest opportunity, said a US Wmbassy statement here.”After presenting his credentials, he will begin working
with his Pakistani counterparts and the Pakistani people to strengthen American-Pakistani relations, increase trade between the two countries, further enhance our security partnership, and advance the broad agenda laid out by President Obama and Prime Minister Sharif when they met in Washington on October 22, 2015,” it said.
David Hale is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Career Minister.
He served as Ambassador to the Lebanese Republic from 2013
to 2015.
Previously, he was the Special Envoy for Middle East
Peace (2011-2013), Deputy Special Envoy for Middle East Peace
(2009-11), and American Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom
of Jordan (2005-8).
He has also served in Tunisia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and at
the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and multiple tours in
Lebanon and Jordan.
In Washington, Hale was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Israel, Egypt and the Levant, Director for Israel
and Palestinian Affairs, and Executive Assistant to Secretary
of State Madeleine Albright.
In 2013 Secretary Clinton presented Hale with the
Distinguished Service Award. He speaks Arabic.
Hale is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of
Foreign Service and was born in the U.S. state of New Jersey, it
said.

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