U.S. envoy tells Guatemala president - We back U.N. graft body, chief

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley chats with Commissioner Ivan Velasquez at the offices of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), in Guatemala City, Guatemala February 28, 2018. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales on Wednesday that Washington supports a U.N.-backed anti-graft body and its commissioner, who Morales has tried to oust after investigators targeted him.

Haley said during a visit to Guatemala City Morales had not asked her for help to remove the head of the decade-old International Commission against Impunity (CICIG), Ivan Velasquez, a veteran Colombian prosecutor.