Washington: Retired diplomat Marc Grossman will replace the late Richard Holbrooke as US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, An American daily reported.
The newspaper said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would announce the appointment in a major speech on the embattled region Friday at the Asia Society in New York, or before.
It said months of disagreements between the White House and the State Department over the parameter of the job had delayed the announcement.
Grossman has served as assistant secretary of state for Europe and ambassador to Turkey.
His last post before retiring from the foreign service in 2005 was undersecretary for political affairs under former president George W. Bush’s first term in office.
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