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    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.
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