The US Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs today, May 18, approved the candidacy of a new ambassador to Ukraine. For this position, the American president proposed diplomat Bridget Brink.
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“After three years of absence of the US Ambassador to Ukraine, we finally have the opportunity to change the narrative. Bridget Brink is qualified and ready,” the US Senate committee said in a statement.
Now the US Senate must vote to approve Brink’s candidacy for the post of head of the US embassy in Ukraine.
As you know, Brigitte Brink previously served as the US Ambassador to Slovakia, worked as a senior adviser and deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs of the US State Department, coordinated issues related to Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
From 2014 to 2015, she was Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Tashkent. Since 2011, she has been working in Georgia as Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in Tbilisi.
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