The minister wished the ambassador fruitful work in his new office.
The upper house of the United States Congress,
the Senate, supported the appointment of John Tefft as the U.S.
ambassador to Ukraine.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated
Tefft for the post late in September 2009, remaining a final decision
to the discretion of the U.S. Senate.
John F. Tefft
has been a career Foreign Service Officer for 37 years. He most
recently served as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Georgia,
from 2005-2009. Prior to that assignment Tefft served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and was
responsible for US relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and
Moldova. I
n 2003-2005 Tefft was the International Affairs Advisor at
the National War College in Washington, DC. He served as the United
States Ambassador to Lithuania from 2000 to 2003. He was deputy chief
of mission at the US Embassy in Moscow from 1996 to 1999, and served as
Charge d'affaires from November 1996 to September 1997.
His other Foreign Service assignments include: Jerusalem, Budapest and Rome. Tefft holds a Bachelors Degree from Marquette University and a Masters Degree from Georgetown University.
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