WARM GOODBYES RENDERED TO AMBASSADOR EVANS

Panorama.am
15:07 22/08/06

John Evans, U.S. ambassador to Armenia, is going to leave the country
in the first half of September, the ambassador told reporters today
at the Guard Troops Training Center.

The ambassador refrained from commenting on the recent decision of the
Senate. The Armenian nation will remember ambassador Evans as a brave
personality who had the civil courage to tell the truth by calling
the anti-Armenian atrocities of 1915 as Genocide. The ambassador
took this step despite of the fact that President George W. Bush and
U.S. Department of State, in the face of Condoleezza Rice, continue
the double-nature attitude by using words like "tragic incidents,"
"massacres" in their April 24 addresses.

It is clear that John Evans’s mission ends in Armenia exactly
because of the abovementioned statement, which was not forgiven by
the official Washington. On the other hand, it is difficult to say
if Armenia will say "welcome" to Hoagland, who is nominated as the
next U.S. ambassador, especially if we consider talks that he is
bisexual.