NEW YORK, December 15. /TASS/. US President-elect Donald Trump selected ex-Acting Director of the National Intelligence Richard Grenell to the position of the Presidential Envoy for Special Missions.

"I am pleased to announce Richard Allen Grenell as our Presidential Envoy for Special Missions," Trump wrote on his page in the Truth Social network. Grenell will "work in some of the hottest spots around the World, including Venezuela and North Korea," he added.

Grenell served earlier as the US Ambassador to Germany and as the Presidential Envoy for Kosovo-Serbia Negotiations.