The US Embassy in Manila on Wednesday debunked reports that Ambassador Sung Kim will be replaced by US State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations Mina Chang.
"We’ve seen this claim. It is not true,” the embassy said in a statement.
“In September 2018, the White House announced the President’s intent to nominate Mina Chang to be an Assistant Administrator of the US
Agency for International Development for the Bureau of Asia," it added.
It stressed that Chang's nomination to the USAID position has been referred to the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate last January, but the White House did not give any further announcement yet.
“There have been no additional White House announcements regarding her nomination to the USAID position,” the embassy statement said.