Official representative of the State Department Victoria Nuland confirmed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to resign.

“I don’t think the Secretary’s plans have changed. You’ve heard her say many times that she intends to see through a transition of a successor and then she will go back to private life and enjoy some rest and think and write and all those things,” she told a briefing on Wednesday.

The most likely candidates to replace Hillary Clinton are UN Ambassador Susan Rice, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry and National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon, Rosbalt reports.

Earlier it was informed that Clinton would step down when Obama’s tenure ends.