US President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate current
US Ambassador to Armenia Lynne Tracy as Washington’s next envoy to
Russia, the White House said in a statement, Trend reports citing
TASS.
“Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate
<�…> Lynne M. Tracy, Nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to the Russian Federation,” the document says.
According to the document, prior to her appointment as US
ambassador to Armenia, Tracy was the Senior Adviser for Russia in
the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and,
before that, the Deputy Chief of Mission at US Embassy in Moscow,
Russia (2014-2017).
Earlier, Tracy served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central
Asia in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs and as
Director for Central Asia at the National Security Council. The
Department of State noted that she speaks Russian.
Tracy, who has headed the US diplomatic mission to Armenia since
2019, will become the first female US Ambassador to Russia if her
candidacy is approved.
At present, the post of US ambassador to Russia is vacant,
following the departure of John Sullivan, 62, from Moscow on
September 4. He was appointed by former US President Donald Trump,
a Republican, in December 2019.
Last week, CNN reported with reference to own sources, that US
President Joe Biden plans to nominate the current head of the US
diplomatic mission in Armenia, Lynne Tracy, to the post of
ambassador to Russia. According to the channel, the Biden
administration hopes that the US Senate will quickly approve
Tracy’s nomination and that she will soon be able to start working
in Moscow. It is noted that the US authorities have already sent a
corresponding request to the Russian Federation for approval.
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