US expected to tap Iraq envoy for Cairo
US officials and diplomatic sources have told Al-Monitor that US Ambassador to Iraq Robert Stephen Beecroft is expected to be nominated as the next envoy to Egypt.
US Ambassador to Iraq Robert Stephen Beecroft is expected to be nominated to be the next US envoy to Egypt, US officials and diplomatic sources tell Al-Monitor, after the Cairo embassy has been without a full-time US ambassador for several months.
Beecroft, who has served as the top American diplomat in Baghdad since 2012, is a career foreign service officer who previously served as executive assistant to both then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, as well as former US Ambassador to Jordan. He has also served at US embassies in Riyadh, Damascus and in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and Executive Secretariat.
Al-Monitor previously reported that current US envoy to Jordan Stuart Jones is expected to be nominated to succeed Beecroft as US ambassador to Iraq.
Neither Beecroft nor Jones responded to queries.
