RUDOLPH PERINA COMPLETING DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO ARMENIA OCTOBER 26

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.10.2007 12:14 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The U.S. Charge d’Affairs in Armenia, Rudolph Perina
is completing his diplomatic mission October 26. Spokesman for the
U.S. Embassy, Taguhi Jahukian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that
Vice Ambassador Joseph Pennington will act as U.S. Charge d’Affairs
until appointment of Ambassador.

In September 2006, Ambassador John Evans was prematurely recalled
from his post and dismissed because of remarks he made while visiting
California in 2005 regarding his open acknowledgement of the Armenian
Genocide.

Richard Hoagland’s nomination as the next Ambassador to Armenia was
twice blocked by Senator Robert Menendez over Hoagland’s refusal to
recognize Armenian massacre in 1915 as Genocide.