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From 1993 to 1996, during
Bill Clinton's presidency, Nuland was
chief of staff to
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott before moving on to serve as deputy director for former
Soviet Union affairs.
[11] From 2003 to 2005, Nuland served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President
Dick Cheney, exercising an influential role during the
Iraq War.[
citation needed] From 2005 to 2008, during President
George W. Bush's second term, Nuland served as U.S. ambassador to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, where she concentrated on mobilizing European support for the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan.
[12] In the summer of 2011, Nuland became special envoy for
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe[13] and then became
State Department spokesperson.
[14]
In May 2013, Nuland was nominated to act as
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs[15] and was sworn in on September 18, 2013.
[16] In her role as assistant secretary, she managed diplomatic relations with 50 countries in Europe and Eurasia, as well as with NATO, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.[
citation needed]
Nuland was the lead U.S. point person for the
Revolution of Dignity, establishing
loan guarantees to Ukraine, including a $1 billion loan guarantee in 2014, and the provisions of non-lethal assistance to the Ukrainian military and border guard.
[17][18] Along with Secretary of State
John Kerry and Secretary of Defense
Ash Carter, she is seen as a leading supporter of defensive weapons delivery to Ukraine. In 2016, Nuland urged Ukraine to start prosecuting corrupt officials: "It's time to start locking up people who have ripped off the Ukrainian population for too long and it is time to eradicate the cancer of corruption".
[19] While serving as the Department of State's lead diplomat on the Ukraine crisis, Nuland pushed European allies to take a harder line on Russian expansionism.
[20]
During a June 7, 2016, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing titled "Russian Violations of Borders, Treaties, and Human Rights", Nuland described U.S. diplomatic outreach to the former Soviet Union and efforts to build a constructive relationship with Russia. During her testimony, Nuland noted Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine which she said, "shattered any remaining illusions about this Kremlin's willingness to abide by international law or live by the rules of the institutions that Russia joined at the end of the Cold War."
[21]
On February 4, 2014, a recording of a phone call between Nuland and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine,
Geoffrey Pyatt, on January 28, 2014, was published on
YouTube.
[22][23][24][25][26][27] In their phone conversation, Nuland and Pyatt were having a discussion about the make up of next Ukrainian government and giving their evaluation of various Ukrainain political figures. Nuland told Pyatt that
Arseniy Yatsenyuk would be the best candidate to become the next Prime Minister of Ukraine.
[23][24] Nuland suggested the United Nations, rather than European Union should be involved in a political solution in Kiev, saying that “So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and have the U.N. help glue it and you know ... fuck the EU”. The following day, Christiane Wirtz, Deputy Government Spokesperson and Deputy Head of the Press and Information Office of the German Federal Government, stated that German Chancellor
Angela Merkel termed Nuland's remark "absolutely unacceptable."
[28] The president of the
European Council,
Herman Van Rompuy, condemned the remark as "unacceptable".
[29][30] Department of State spokesperson
Jen Psaki said the discussion was not evidence of any American plan to influence the political outcome, remarking that "It shouldn't be a surprise that at any point there have been discussions about recent events and offers and what is happening on the ground".
[31]
Trump administrationEdit
Nuland left the State Department in January 2017, amid the departure of many career officials who left in the early days of the
Trump administration.
[32]
On January 24, 2018,
The Washington Post published an interview with Nuland where she opined on the work of President
Donald Trump and Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson. She described an exodus of career foreign service officials and dysfunction within the State Department, and stated that the American judiciary and media were under assault. Nuland also decried a trend towards American
isolationism, stating: "When we withdraw and say it's every nation for itself, you open the door for countries dissatisfied with their territorial position and influence in the international system — or with the system itself." She encouraged whole-government responses to international issues, stating, "Military leaders would be the first to say military solutions alone result in more and longer military entanglements. The role of American diplomats and political leaders is to work concurrently with the military to bring to bear all of the political tools we have."
[33]
In January 2018, the Trump administration began new high-level engagements with Russian government officials by scheduling a meeting between Russia's top general
Valery Gerasimov and the NATO
Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General
Curtis Scaparrotti. Nuland stated, "These channels are especially vital at a time when relations at the leader level are so unpredictable." She said Scaparrotti was "uniquely positioned" to address concerns about Russia's "ongoing military role in Ukraine, its
INF treaty violations, its active measures to undermine Transatlantic democracies and the other strategic tensions that are driving the US and its allies to take stronger deterrent measures."
[34]
Biden administrationEdit
Nuland with Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken in May 2021
On January 5, 2021, it was reported that President-elect
Joe Biden would nominate Nuland to serve as
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under Secretary-designate
Antony Blinken.
[3] Hearings on Nuland's nomination were held by the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 15, 2021. The committee favorably reported Nuland's nomination on April 21, 2021. On April 29, 2021, her nomination was confirmed by the entire Senate by
voice vote, and she started her work as Under Secretary of State on May 3, 2021.
[35]
Nuland at a State Department press briefing in 2022
In March 2022, Nuland expressed concern that Russia would get control of Ukraine's biological research facilities during
its invasion of Ukraine.
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