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US top diplomat for ASEAN due by October: Envoy
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US Vice President Kamala Harris is joined by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as she delivers remarks during a plenary meeting with ASEAN leaders at the US State Department on May 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. Harris swore in the US' next ambassador to ASEAN on Sept. 19, 2022. (AFP/ Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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he United States’ newly sworn-in envoy to ASEAN will arrive in Jakarta by October to fill a post that had been left vacant “for a very long time”, Indonesian Ambassador to the US Rosan P. Roeslani revealed on Wednesday.
In May, US President Joe Biden revealed his nomination of Yohannes Abraham, the former chief of staff and executive secretary of the National Security Council, during the US-ASEAN Special Summit in Washington, DC.
In his previous role, Abraham worked closely with others responsible for setting up and executing the Biden administration’s Southeast Asia policy, which the US State Department said made him a “well-qualified candidate” for the ASEAN post.
Ambassador Rosan said he already had lunch with him after being appointed and noted that Abraham could not wait to start serving in his new capacity.
“He is very excited, because the post has been vacant for a very long time,” Rosan told The Jakarta Post at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
“He’ll come to Indonesia by October.”
A US Mission to ASEAN spokesperson told the Post on Thursday that the ambassador-designate’s arrival was “another example of the importance the United States places on ASEAN and this region”.
