OTTAWA — Mike Pompeo spent his Easter weekend in North Korea as Donald Trump’s CIA director, but it’s almost certain he will be leaving America’s chair vacant at a major upcoming G7 meeting in Toronto.
Pompeo is still in the middle of an acrimonious confirmation process to become the new U.S. secretary of state and it seems unlikely he will be formally installed in his new job by the weekend.
That means Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland won’t have an equal American counterpart when she convenes a meeting of G7 foreign ministers on Sunday to discuss a broad range of international security …read more
Source: National Newswatch
