U.S. SENATE CONFIRMS MARIE YOVANOVITCH AS NEW AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA

ARMENPRESS
Aug 4, 2008

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS: The U.S. Senate has confirmed Marie
Yovanovitch as new ambassador to Armenia, AP reported.

Earlier on July 29 her nomination was confirmed by Senate’s Foreign
Relationships Commission.

She served as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan since 2005. Before that she
served as an aide to deputy U.S. secretary of state.

Former ambassador John Evans was recalled in 2006. Before Yovanovitch’s
nomination, President Bush picked Richard Hoagland as a nominee to
serve as ambassador to Yerevan, but his candidacy was put on hold
twice by Senator Robert Melendez after Hoagland refused to term the
1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey as genocide.

The White House withdrew Hoagalnd’s candidacy in 2007 August.