United States Ambassador to Armenia

Upon the breakup of the Soviet Union, Armenia declared its independence on August 23, 1991, having previously been the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the constituent republics of the USSR since 1936, and part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic since 1920.

The United States recognized Armenia on December 26, 1991. The embassy at Yerevan was opened February 3, 1992, with Steven Mann as Chargé d’Affaires "ad interim".

The U.S. ambassadorial post in Armenia has been vacant since May 24, 2006, when the then-current ambassador, John Marshall Evans was recalled by the Bush administration, purportedly over remarks by Evans concerning the Armenian genocide.cite web
url=http://www.armenialiberty.org/armeniareport/report/en/2006/05/433CD274-5EF9-4D3B-B282-199FF039B497.ASP
title=U.S. Envoy to Armenia Recalled
accessdate=2007-08-03
author=Emil Danielyan
date=May 24, 2006
publisher=ArmeniaLiberty.org] On May 23, 2006, and again on January 9, 2007, President Bush nominated Richard E. Hoagland to be the new ambassador to Armenia, but the nomination has been stalled in Senate in a dispute between the Bush administration and Congress over the Armenian genocide issue.cite web
url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/08/30/armenians_try_to_stall_appointment_of_us_envoy/
title=Armenians try to stall appointment of US envoy
accessdate=2007-08-03
author=Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff
date=August 30, 2006
publisher=The Boston Globe] cite web
url=http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/09/543074CD-F93D-4956-B68A-4642464EB039.html
title=Genocide Issue Blocks Naming Of U.S. Ambassador To Armenia
accessdate=2007-08-03
date=September 13, 2006
publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty] As of 2007, the current head of the embassy is Rudolf V. Perina, the chargé d’affaires "ad interim".cite web
url=http://yerevan.usembassy.gov/ambassador.php
title=Embassy Leadership
accessdate=2007-08-03
author=United States Embassy in Yerevan
publisher=United States Department of State: U.S. Embassy in Yerevan]

Ambassadors

*Harry J. GilmoreGilmore was nominated for the second time by President Clinton on April 2, 1993. An earlier nomination of August 10, 1992 was not acted upon by the Senate.] – Career FSO
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: May 12, 1993
**Presented credentials: May 31, 1993
**Terminated mission: Left post, July 11, 1995
*Peter Tomsen – Career FSO
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: June 27, 1995
**Presented credentials: September 6, 1995
**Terminated mission: Left post September 6, 1998
*Michael Craig Lemmon – Career FSO
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: June 29, 1998
**Presented credentials: September 21, 1998
**Terminated mission: Left post October 1, 2001
*John Malcolm Ordway – Career FSO
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: November 5, 2001
**Presented credentials: November 23, 2001
**Terminated mission: Left post July 31, 2004
*John Marshall Evans – Career FSO
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: June 30, 2004
**Presented credentials: September 4, 2004
**Terminated mission: Left post, September 10, 2006

Notes

External links

* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10364.htm United States Dep’t of State: Ambassadors to Armenia]
* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5275.htm United States Dep’t of State: Background Notes on Armenia]
* [http://yerevan.usembassy.gov/ United States Dep’t of State: U.S. Embassy Yerevan]
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ee also

*Foreign relations of Armenia
*Ambassadors from the United States