PanARMENIAN.Net
Bush nominates Marie L. Yovanovitch for U.S. Ambassador to Armenia
29.03.2008 15:19 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. President Bush intends to
nominate Marie L. Yovanovitch, of Connecticut, to be
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
United States of America to the Republic of Armenia.
Ms. Yovanovitch, a career member of the Foreign
Service, currently serves as Ambassador to the Kyrgyz
Republic. Prior to this, she served as Senior Advisor
to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs at the
Department of State. Earlier in her career, she served
as Deputy Chief of Mission in Kyiv. Ms. Yovanovitch
received her bachelor’s degree from Princeton
University and her master’s degree from the National
War College.
An earlier attempt to nominate Amb. Richard Hoagland
to replace Amb. Evans was blocked by Sen. Robert
Menendez (Dem.-N.J.), to protest the dismissal of Amb.
Evans and to object to Amb. Hoagland’s poor choice of
words in responding to Senators’ questions on the
validity of the Armenian Genocide.