US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson came under attack for failing to appear in public to launch his own department’s annual human rights report.
President Donald Trump’s chief diplomat, who has all but dropped from public view since taking office a month ago, penned a brief preface to the survey of the rights record of 199 countries.
But there was no event or news conference to mark the report’s launch, and the State Department provided only an anonymous “senior administration official” to respond to reporters’ questions.
The official answered reporters’ questions by phone on condition of anonymity rather than appearing on camera, also …read more
Source: Gulf times
