U.S. Senate, gathered today at an extraordinary meeting, blesed candidate Anthony Blinken to the position of Deputy Secretary of state, stated in the Senate press gallery.

It stressed that for 2, 5 hours from the time of the beginning of the session, lawmakers endorsed four candidates. Besides Blinken, Executive assistant to the Minister of public safety was approved Sarah Saldana, Caroline Colvin - as head of the social security Administration, and Vivec Murphy - chief surgeon of the United States.

The candidacy of Blinken was proposed by the President of the United States of America Barack Obama. At this point in time he is the Deputy assistant to the President for national security.

at the hearings in the relevant Senate Committee on foreign relations in November, Lloyd, for example, said about the possibility that the United States provided military assistance to the government of Ukraine.

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