Pentagon: it is up to the White House to announce the candidate for the post of defense minister

Refused Admiral John Kirby, a spokesman for the US Department of Defense, "Pentagon", on Tuesday, to comment on the news about the nomination of a new defense minister, replacing Chuck Hagel, who resigned recently.

Kirby said, in a press statement at the Pentagon, the US president is the only one who can announcement of this decision, pointing out that it is up to the president and the White House to determine the date of this decision and the announcement of the candidate for the job name.

The news has been conflicting earlier about the intention to nominate US President, Barack Obama, Vice former Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, to the Crown as Minister of Defense, where he told Senator Jim Aenhovy, a senior member of the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, that President Obama has chosen to Ashton for his nomination for the post of Secretary of Defense, while the White House refused to comment, saying that Carter is a leading candidate for the job.

It is worth mentioning that Carter left the Ministry of Defence in December last year after serving as deputy defense minister during the reign of former Minister Leon Panetta and the minister resigned Hagel.