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    APPOINTMENT OF U.S. AMBASSADOR DELAYED

    Noyan Tapan
    http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=114841
    Ju ne 23, 2008

    YEREVAN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The appointment of Marie Yovanovich as
    U.S. ambassador to Armenia is delayed due to the necessity to answer
    the written questions submitted to her, the U.S. Charge D'Affaires
    Joseph Pennington informed reporters on June 23. According to him,
    during the discussion at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
    the day before, M. Yovanovich answered many questions, but several
    senators presented written questions to her and the discussion will
    continue after she gives answers to these questions. In J. Pennington's
    words, it is the Senate's competence to approve the appointment of
    the ambassador, and such discussion is normal and makes part of the
    democratic processes in the U.S.

    "We hope that the candidacy of Ambassador Yovanovich will be
    approved, and she will arrive in Yerevan as soon as possible,"
    J. Pennington said. He underlined that the appointment of ambassdor
    is of great importance for Armenian-US relations. He failed to say
    if M. Yovanovich's position on the issue of the Armenian Genocide
    will affect approval her candidacy as ambassador to Armenia.

    It is noteworthy that when speaking about massacres of 1.5 million
    Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the indicated discussion at the
    Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, M. Yovanovich said that the
    Armenians call these massacres the Great Genocide. In her words, the
    U.S. administration understands that in the opinion of many Amercians,
    such events should be called genocide.
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