No problem in appointing former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine as  Ambassador to Armenia - expert 

ArmInfo.No problem in that the new U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Kristina A. Kvien was U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, political scientist Suren Sargsyan wrote in a Facebook  post. 

"Many may see a link between the new ambassador's appointment with  her work in Ukraine, but I do not see. The former U.S. ambassador to  Armenia was later appointed as a career diplomat in Ukraine. The  incumbent Ambassador Lynne Tracy worked in Pakistan. I do not think  it is a basis for conspiracy theories," he wrote. 

From private talks Mr Sargsyan knows that Ms Kvien is a well-trained  career diplomat, which cannot be said of Armenia's ambassador to the  United States. Ms Kristina A. Kvien worked at the U.S. Department of  State, Security Council and in a number of countries. 

"The new ambassador is one of the diplomats of the post-Cold War  period. She has excellent knowledge of the region and its history. Ms  Kvien was born in Fresno, California, where many Armenians are  living. She received serious military education at Occidental  College, attended by Barack Obama. She is most likely to arrive in  Yerevan this September or October, after the U.S. Senate approves her  candidacy," he wrote. 

U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated Kristina A.  Kvien for  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of  Armenia, the White House  reports. 

Kristina A. Kvien, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with   the rank of Minister-Counselor, serves as Deputy Chief of Mission at   U.S. Embassy Kyiv. She was previously Charg, d'Affaires ad interim   from 2020-2022. 

Prior to that, Kvien served as Minister-Counselor for Economic   Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France and as Economic   Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. In both Paris and  Bangkok, she served more than one year as Acting Deputy Chief of   Mission. 

She also served as Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in London.   Earlier in her career, Kvien was detailed to the National Security   Council in Washington, D.C. as Director for EU, Ukraine and Belarus  affairs. Other overseas assignments include the U.S. Embassy in   Moscow, Russia; the U.S. Mission to the EU in Brussels; and the U.S.   Embassy in Manila, Republic of the Philippines. 

Domestic assignments include the Office of European and Regional   Affairs, and the Office of Central European Affairs, both in the   Bureau of Europe and Eurasian Affairs. Kvien, a native of California,  holds a BA from Occidental College and an MS from the U.S. Army War   College. She is a recipient of multiple State Department performance   awards and speaks Russian and French.