After 4-year gap, nomination made for top US diplomat for South Asia
Sat, Apr 24 2021 08:47:52 AM
By Arul Louis
New York, Apr 24 (IANS): After a gap of four years, the US State Department is to get an Assistant Secretary of State for the South Asia region if President Joe Biden s nomination of Donald Lu goes through the Senate.
During the four years of Donald Trump s presidency the job of the top US diplomat for South and Central Asia went vacant and was managed by two successive diplomats in acting capacities.
The White House on Friday announced the nomination of Lu, the US Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, to the post.
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President Biden has announced the nomination of Cal/OSHA Chief Doug Parker for Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
The nomination is now before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
If confirmed, Parker will be the first Senate-confirmed leader of OSHA since January 2017.
Parker’s nomination comes at a time when OSHA is determining whether to move forward with an emergency COVID-19 standard.
On April 9, 2021, President Biden announced that he was nominating Doug Parker for the role of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health. Doug Parker is currently the Chief of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (“Cal/OSHA”) and has served in that role since 2019.