Susan Rice withdraws from race of US Secretary of State

December 14, 2012 04:07

US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has withdrew herself from the race of Secretary of State, considering the stiff opposition she might have faced from the opposition Republican Senators during the confirmation process.

The US President Barack Obama has accepted her decision. "I spoke to Ambassador Susan Rice, and accepted her decision to remove her name from consideration for Secretary of State," Obama said in a statement yesterday. Rice was said to be Obama's most favourite choice for the nations' top diplomatic post.

Hillary Clinton, the current Secretary of State, has announced that she would leave the position at the end of Obama's first term next month.

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