NEW US AMBASSADOR TO COME?
Zhanna Zhukova

Neweurasia.net
http://kazakhstan.neweuras ia.net/2008/04/07/new-us-ambasador-to-come/
April 7 2008
Europe

KZBlog reports that Richard Hoagland has been nominated by President
Bush to replace John Ordway as Ambassador to Kazakhstan. Hoagland
is currently serving in the U.S. Embassy to Turkmenistan and was
Ambassador to Tajikistan.

Hoagland was nominated as Ambassador to Armenia last year but
his nomination was withdrawn in relation to questions of the US
acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide. The then-Ambassador to
Armenia was withdrawn when he gave a speech regarding the genocide
and Hoagland’s nomination was stalled and then withdrawn while the
Senate debated whether to publically acknowledge the genocide or not.

Ordway has been Ambassador since 2004.