“It is expected that the issue of appointing a U.S. Ambassador to Armenia will be discussed in the Senate in the end of July,” said the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Joseph Pennington. Pennington says that the hearings on candidature of Marie Yovanovitch have been delayed in connection with the hearings in the Senate, during which the candidate was asked a number of questions concerning the Armenian genocide and relations with Armenia. Also journalists asked questions concerning the future ambassador to deputy state secretary David Cramer, who paid a short-term visit to Armenia one week ago. He said that he hoped that the Senate would approve Marie Yovanovitch. “However while it is done we have a very good Chargé d’Affaires. But my impression is that he would prefer to do the job for which he has come here, I mean the deputy Ambassador’s job,” said Cramer. Pennington, who was present during the press-conference, approved that and said in Armenian that he is true. In a word, Pennington has one more month to suffer.
