US Senate confirms next ambassador to Azerbaijan

Baku, December 18, AzerTAc Robert Cekuta has been confirmed by the US Senate as the next ambassador to Azerbaijan. Jess Lippincott Bailey was confirmed to the post of the ambassador of the USA to Macedonia, Margaret Ann Uyehara on the post of the ambassador of the USA to Montenegro and Richard Mills on the post of the ambassador of the USA to Armenia. Earlier, the US President Barack Obama nominated the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Energy Resources of the Department of State, Robert Francis Cekuta for the post of ambassador to Azerbaijan, and afterwards his candidacy was approved by the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.