NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA TO ARRIVE IN YEREVAN IN SEPTEMBER

ARKA
Aug 27, 2008

YEREVAN, August 27. /ARKA/. The newly appointed U.S. Ambassador
to Armenia Marie L.Yovanovich is to arrive in Yerevan in mid
September, U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Armenia Joseph Pennington told
journalists. The exact date of her arrival is not known yet, he said.

The nomination of Yovanovich was approved by U.S. Senate on August 1.

Yovanovich was nominated by the Administration of President
Bush. Response of the Armenian American lobby to the nomination was
not unambiguous as in her speech at the External Affairs Committee
on June 19 Yovanovich evaded calling the 1915 massacre of Armenians
in Ottoman Empire genocide.