U.S. Department of State hopes for soonest confirmation of Ambassador to Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - The U.S. Department of State hopes for a soonest confirmation of U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, an official said.



"I don't think it's normal that the U.S. Embassy in Armenia has been functioning without Ambassador for two years already," David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, told reporters in Yerevan today.



"This time there is a good Ambassador-nominee and there is a good Charge d'Affairs who would with pleasure re-assume his duty of Vice Ambassador," he said, Novosti Armenia reports.



On March 28, 2008, Pres. Bush nominated Amb. Marie L. Yovanovitch, currently Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, to serve as America's next Ambassador to Armenia.



As reported earlier by PanARMENIAN.Net Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) secured a one-month delay in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's consideration of the confirmation of U.S. Ambassador to Armenia nominee Marie Yovanovitch in response to the State Department's delay in providing timely written responses to the eight sets of written questions submitted to her by members of the panel.