U.S. SENATE SENDS BACK HOAGLAND’S CANDIDATURE

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Dec 13 2006

WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 13, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The
U.S. Senate sent back on December 8 Richard Hoagland’s candidature
as the Ambassador to Armenia to President George Bush. As the
Armenian National Committe of America states it was done according
to the order that all the candidatures not affirmed by him before
the Congress holidays must be returned and again presented after
the holidays. The Congress will restart its work in January. Richard
Hoagland’s candidature was stopped on December 12 by New Jersey Senator
Robert Menendez after Hoagland’s refusal to obviously recognize the
Armenian Genocide.

According to the same source, President Bush has the following possible
variants to act: again to present Hoagland’s candidature in January,
to present a new candidate, to appoint Hoagland as the Ambassador
during the Congress holidays (that’s, passing round the Senate),
or simply to leave vacant the chair of the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia.