VOTING ON MARIE YOVANOVITCH’S CANDIDACY FOR POST OF US AMBASSADOR TO RA EXPECTED AT US SENATE IN LATE JULY
ArmInfo
2008-07-02 12:58:00
Voting on Marie Yovanovitch’s candidacy for the post of US Ambassador
to RA is expected at the US Senate in late July, US Charge d’Affairs
a.i. in Armenia Josef Pennington said. The voting was earlier postponed
in connection with the procedure of answers to the questions of
senators, he said.
The White House proposed the candidacy of the incumbent US Ambassador
to Kyrgyzstan Marie Yovanovitch. He added that the relevant official
information was received from the White House in Friday evening. To
note, before appointment as Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan in 2005, Marie
Yovanovitch worked as a chief adviser of deputy US Secretary of State
on political affairs. Moreover, from 2001 to 2004, she worked as
deputy US ambassador to Ukraine, and from 1998 to 2000 – as US State
Department’s deputy director for Russia. Marie Yovanovitch graduated
from Princeton University , where she performed researches on the
history of Russia. She also studied in Pushkin Institute and received
a degree in the National Military School. The Ambassador Yovanoitch
knows Russian and French. To note, the vacancy of US ambassador to
Armenia is available since September, 2006, after pre-term completion
of the diplomatic mission of Ambassador John Evans.