Washington DC, 3 March 2022 (TDI): On Thursday, US Senate congratulated Donald Armin Blome for the appointment of the next US Ambassador to Pakistan.

Following the confirmation of Blome, the US State Department stated, “Partnership with Pakistan is key to progress on regional security, trade and investment, the climate crisis, and human rights”.

As a seasoned diplomat and a career foreign service official, Blome is currently the US Ambassador to Tunisia and has served missions in Baghdad, Kuwait, Kabul, Jerusalem, and Cairo.

Later with the confirmation, US Senate remarked “Partnership with Pakistan is key to progress on regional security, trade and investment, the climate crisis, and human rights”.

Being a diplomat and foreign service official, Blome is a former US Ambassador to Kuwait, Baghdad, Kabul, Jerusalem, and Cairo. As of now, he is the US Ambassador to Tunisia.

Previously, Blome has also been seen to serve as the co-director of the Multi-National Force Strategic Engagement Cell in Baghdad in 2007.

On this occasion, Blome received welcoming remarks from Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed Khan, saying, “We look forward to working closely with him in further strengthening Pak-US partnership”.

Blome is appointed for four years after Ambassador David Hale completed his three-year term in Islamabad. David is now appointed as Undersecretary of State for political affairs in Washington.

Hale has been a part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington-based think-tank, as a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow on detail from the State Department since 2021.

As the US declared that Pakistan will have a full-time Ambassador in October 2021. To which, Biden forwarded Blome as US’s new diplomatic envoy to Islamabad.

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