The US Senate unanimously approves Brink as ambassador to Ukraine
The United States Senate unanimously approves Bridget Brink US Ambassador to Ukraine
Reuters reports.
On Wednesday, May 18, the US Senate approved diplomat Bridget Brink as ambassador to Ukraine.
According to the publication, this is an important position that has been vacant for three years.
As reported by Rubryka, US President Joe Biden officially proposed to appoint diplomat Bridget Brink as Ambassador of the United States to Ukraine on April 27.
Earlier, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee supported Brink's candidacy for US ambassador to Ukraine.
Bridget Brink was Ambassador to Slovakia and, among other things, was a Senior Advisor and Assistant Secretary of the Bureau for European and Eurasian Affairs of the State Department, in charge of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
The US diplomatic mission has been operating without a permanent head since Donald Trump recalled Marie Jovanovich in April 2019.
"Career diplomat" is what American journalists like to call Brink because she spent 26 years in various positions in the State Department.
And the diplomat simply has a knack for being in countries of interest in terms of international politics.
Yes, she got her first job at the US Embassy in Serbia. Brink worked there as a political adviser from 1997 to 1999, trapping the effects of the war in Bosnia and the outbreak of the conflict in Kosovo.
The latter escalated into a full-fledged Serb war with NATO, so diplomats were evacuated.
After that, she was transferred to Cyprus: part of the island is controlled by the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is de facto backed by Turkey itself.
Bridget Brink spent another three years (2005-2008) in Tbilisi as a political and economic leader. There, she saw up close and supported the reforms implemented by Mikheil Saakashvili and Kakha Bendukidze.
After 2008, the diplomat moved to Washington for "staff" positions. First, to the US National Security Council (this required her knowledge of the Mediterranean and the Caucasus).
And then to the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs of the State Department. During the break, she managed to work in the embassies of Georgia (again) and Uzbekistan.
But in 2019, Brink was very close to Ukraine: she became the US ambassador to Slovakia.
