ArmInfo. Senior Advisor for Russia Affairs at the U.S. Department of State Lynne M. Tracy may become Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Armenia.
As the press service of the White House informs, US President Donald Trump made the proposal. However the candidacy should be approved by US Senate. To note, Ms. Tracy is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, currently serving as Senior Advisor for Russia Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Previously, she served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the Department of State, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, and Principal Officer at the U.S. Embassy Branch Office in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Ambassador Richard M. Mills, Jr., a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service, most recently served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon from 2012 to 2014.
To note, the incumbent US Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills took the office in the beginning of 2015. He most recently served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Mills started his diplomatic career in 1988, previously he worked in the capitals of major states - in Paris, London, as well as in Baghdad and Islamabad, which are of key importance for the US. He is well aware of the problems of the Soviet Union and Armenia, since at the beginning of his diplomatic career, during Gorbachev's perestroika (transition) years, he worked in the department of the Department of State on the issues of the Soviet Union, and then he headed the consultative department established on the issues of Armenia and Azerbaijan.