The committee hopes that the Senate will be able to meet and approve her candidacy as soon as possible.

The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations approved the candidacy of Bridget Brink for the post of new ambassador to Ukraine.

This was reported on the Committee ‘s Twitter .

“After three years of absence of the US Ambassador to Ukraine, we finally have the opportunity to change the narrative,” the message says.

It is noted that Brink is qualified and today her candidacy was approved by the committee.

The committee hopes that the Senate (the upper house of Congress) will be able to meet and approve her candidacy as soon as possible.

As UNIAN reported earlier, on April 27, US President Joe Biden applied to the Senate to approve Brink’s candidacy for the post of US Ambassador to Ukraine.

Bridget Brink: what is known about her

Born in Michigan, Bridget Brink received her bachelor’s degree in political science from Canyon College, Ohio’s oldest private college.

For the past 25 years, Brink has been building a career as a professional diplomat at the US State Department, where she first joined in 1996.

Subsequently, she had to work in American diplomatic missions in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Brink received her first assignment abroad at the US Embassy in Belgrade in 1997-1999, at the height of the war in the Balkans. After Serbia, there was an appointment as an employee of the American Embassy in Cyprus, where she worked until 2002.

After that, Brink served for several years as Special Assistant to the US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. She dealt with issues of Washington’s foreign policy relations with the South European powers.

In 2005-2008, she headed the Political and Economic Section of the US Embassy in Tbilisi.

After that, Bridget Brink returned to Washington for several years, where she was appointed Deputy Director of the Department of Southern European Affairs at the US State Department. During the same period, when Barack Obama was President of the United States, she joined the National Security Council as the coordinator of the development of Washington’s relations with the countries of the Aegean Sea and the South Caucasus (Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia).

In 2011, Brink returned to Georgia again – this time as the deputy head of the US diplomatic mission in Tbilisi. She was then transferred to a similar position at the US Embassy in Tashkent, where she worked in 2014-2015. After Uzbekistan, she was appointed Deputy Assistant to the US Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. In this position, she was responsible for protracted conflicts in Europe, as well as US relations with Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.

In May 2019, Bridget Brink was appointed US Ambassador for the first time. Donald Trump delegated her to represent the United States in Slovakia.

(C)UNIAN 2022