'Sickened', 'saddened' and 'a bit angry': US Ambassador Cella on riots 'Sickened', 'saddened' and 'a bit angry': US Ambassador Cella on riots Jan 12, 2021 The outgoing US Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu and Tonga says he was sickened, saddened and a bit angered by the scenes of violence at the US Capitol building in Washington DC last week. Ambassador Joseph Cella leaves Suva and his role as America's top diplomat in Fiji in nine days. An apppointee of President Donald Trump, he spent just over the year as Ambassador, and has championed US support for the Pacific's private sector and entrepreneurs amongst other causes during his short tenure. Today in Suva he hosted a roundtable on "building bridges between civil society, business and government.'