GEORGE BUSH PROPOSES RICHARD HOAGLAND FOR POST OF U.S. AMBASSADOR TO
ARMENIA

YEREVAN, MAY 25, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. U.S. President George
Bush proposed Richard Hoagland who is the U.S. Ambassador to
Tajikistan at present, for the post of the Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Armenia. Radio Liberty
informs about it. Hoagland is a Caucasus and Central Asia Specialist
and has worked for more than 20 years at the U.S. Department of
State. Before being appointed the Ambassador in Dushanbe, Hoagland was
the Caucasus and Central Asia Office Director of the Bureau for Europe
and Eurasia of the Department of State. During the years of the war
led by Russia in Afghanistan, he worked with forces opposing
Russians. After September 11, 2001, when Presidents George Bush and
Vladimir Putin decided to cooperate very closely in the anti-terrorism
struggle, Hoagland was instructed to organize regular Russian-American
consultations, and in a year, the group headed by him was involved in
the U.S.-Russia anti-terrorism working group.

Hoagland worked as a Speaker at the U.S. Embassy to Russia, occupied
different posts at the American Embassies to Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
Richard Hoagland’s candidature must be affirmed at the Senat. According
to some data, he will arrive in Yerevan in August. Hoagland will take
in Armenia the place of John Evans, who, by insistence of American
press, will not work any more at the Department of State. To recap,
last year Evans called genocide the one committed against Armenians in
Ottaman Turkey in 1915.