John Tefft has the opportunity to be approved by the U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation in the coming days, said at the hearings in the Senate, the head of the Senate Department for foreign policy Robert Menendez.
" I think we cannot afford to wait to send the Ambassador to the Russian Federation, " said Menendez at the hearing on the nomination of John Tefft, which took place in the Committee on Tuesday.
The Senate goes on vacation on August 1, and to approve of John Tefft as Ambassador to this time, the Committee will need to Express support for his candidature unanimously.
Republican John Sidney McCain said that the Committee should vote unanimously for the candidacy of John Tefft that the session of the Senate has yet to approve it before August 1. This contradicts the usual tactics of the Senate, which continuously and for many months delay candidacies of ambassadors of the USA, submitted by the President, in the framework of the political struggle, the opposition Republicans control the White house Democrats.
Tefft is a career diplomat who worked in the past in the division of the state Department, responsible for the USSR and then of the Russian Federation. He was also in different years, the Ambassador in Lithuania, Georgia and Ukraine.
On Tuesday, the US introduced the next, seventh round of sanctions against Russia, which concern the energy and banking sector, as well as arms.
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