Dresen: tough stance Tefft helped him to become an Ambassador to the Russian Federation
Political views, John Tefft has played a role in that head of the United States introduced the initiative of his candidacy to the post of the Ambassador in the capital of Russia - Tefft remain good and Russia for a professional diplomat, said Last news scientific worker of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in the U.S. capital, the researcher of Russian and Ukrainian Joseph Dresen (F. Joseph Dresen).
certain experts named John Tefft, the former US Ambassador in Lithuania, Georgia and Ukraine, a specialist on the " color revolutions " and tied his appointment to the deterioration of Russian-American relations. Others believe that Tefft, the 1st of all, a professional diplomat, who is expected to establish diplomatic channels of communication with Moscow against the most serious differences between the 2 countries for most of the years.
" I think that both opinions are a lot of truth, " said Dresen." President Barack Obama needed the Ambassador, who has a track record of rigid views about Russia, but long experience of work in Russia and surrounding countries, " says researcher of the Kennan Institute." He is a career diplomat, and in This difficult time of his experience in international diplomacy More, and has the opportunity to be no less important than his experience in Eurasia, " added Dresen.
according to him, Tefft - candidate that meets the internal needs of the Obama administration." This assignment corresponds to the political needs of the President inside the country - to appoint someone who has a strong reputation in Russia, and foreign policy needs (Obama) is to be headed by the Embassy in the capital of Russia was a professional diplomat, " he finished American specialist.
leader Barack Obama has made the initiative to the Senate candidacy of John Tefft as Ambassador in the Russian Federation. The Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov confirmed that Moscow gave do that (preliminary consent) on the arrival of John Tefft, the capital of Russia. Tefft from late 2009 to August 2013 was U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, first worked as an Ambassador in Lithuania (2000-2003) and in Georgia (2005-2009), held the post of Deputy head of the us diplomatic mission in the capital of Russia in 1996-1999. Between 1989 and 1992 he was Deputy head of the state Department for the USSR and then in Russia and CIS countries.
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