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U.S. SENATE CONFIRMS MARIE YOVANOVITCH AS AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.08.2008 13:16 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The U.S. Senate confirmed nominee Marie
L. Yovanovitch as next U.S. Ambassador to Armenia.
Confirmation came after a delay by lawmakers who were unhappy with
Ms. Yavonovitch's refusal to use the term 'genocide' to describe
the mass slaughter of Armenians at the hand of the Ottoman Empire,
AP reports.
President Bush nominated Marie Yovanovitch to serve as America's next
Ambassador to Armenia on March 28, 2008.
"The U.S. government - and certainly I - acknowledges and mourns
the mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and forced deportations that
devastated over one and a half million Armenians at the end of the
Ottoman Empire. The United States recognizes these events as one of
the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, the "Medz Yeghern" or
Great Calamity, as many Armenians refer to it. That is why every April
the President honors the victims and expresses American solidarity
with the Armenian people on Remembrance Day," Ms. Yovanovitch said
in her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on
June 19, 2008.
The position has been unfilled since Ambassador John Evans was
recalled two years ago by the Bush Administration for recognizing
the Armenian Genocide. Another Ambassador-elect, Richard Hoagland,
was withdrawn last year after Senator Menendez's hold
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.08.2008 13:16 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The U.S. Senate confirmed nominee Marie
L. Yovanovitch as next U.S. Ambassador to Armenia.
Confirmation came after a delay by lawmakers who were unhappy with
Ms. Yavonovitch's refusal to use the term 'genocide' to describe
the mass slaughter of Armenians at the hand of the Ottoman Empire,
AP reports.
President Bush nominated Marie Yovanovitch to serve as America's next
Ambassador to Armenia on March 28, 2008.
"The U.S. government - and certainly I - acknowledges and mourns
the mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and forced deportations that
devastated over one and a half million Armenians at the end of the
Ottoman Empire. The United States recognizes these events as one of
the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, the "Medz Yeghern" or
Great Calamity, as many Armenians refer to it. That is why every April
the President honors the victims and expresses American solidarity
with the Armenian people on Remembrance Day," Ms. Yovanovitch said
in her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on
June 19, 2008.
The position has been unfilled since Ambassador John Evans was
recalled two years ago by the Bush Administration for recognizing
the Armenian Genocide. Another Ambassador-elect, Richard Hoagland,
was withdrawn last year after Senator Menendez's hold