US President Joe Biden insists on the appointment of a career diplomat Mark Libby as an ambassador in Azerbaijan. The appointment of the latter is postponed for more than six months.
Biden repeatedly appointed Libby on Tuesday, when a new session of the congress began. He was one of the 85 candidates repeatedly represented by the White House, of the number of approximately 175 candidates of the Congress’s last session.
Libby, who is currently an adviser to the Faculty of State Department of the National Military College in Washington, was nominated for the post of ambassador in Azerbaijan on May 25, 2022. However, so far he has not been invited to hearing in the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, headed by the Armenian lobbying artist Bob Menendes.
Libby worked as deputy US ambassador in the European Union, as well as in diplomatic mission in Warsaw, Nicosia and Baghdad, where he was an adviser on political issues.
In Washington, Libby worked as deputy director for the crisis of the operational center of the State Department, Deputy Director of the Department for Central Europe, as well as the director of the Department of Southern Europe.