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Armenia declared its independence from the Soviet Union on August 23, 1990,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gov.am/en/independence/ )〕 having previously been the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the constituent republics of the USSR since 1936, and part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic since 1920. In the wake of the August Coup (1991), a referendum was held on the question of secession. Following an overwhelming vote in favor, full independence was declared on September 21, 1991. However, widespread recognition did not occur until the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991. The United States recognized Armenia on December 25, 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://history.state.gov/countries/armenia )〕 The embassy at Yerevan was opened February 3, 1992, with Steven Mann as Chargé d'Affaires ''ad interim''. The U.S. ambassadorial post to Armenia became vacant on May 24, 2006, when the then-current ambassador John Marshall Evans was recalled by the Bush administration, purportedly over remarks by Evans concerning the Armenian genocide. On May 23, 2006, and again on January 9, 2007, President Bush nominated Richard E. Hoagland to be the new ambassador to Armenia, but the nomination was delayed in The Senate in a dispute between the Bush administration and Congress over the Armenian genocide issue. Rudolf V. Perina, the chargé d'affaires ''ad interim'', served as the chief of the mission until August 1, 2008 when Marie L. Yovanovitch began her term as the ambassador. ==Ambassadors== *Harry J. Gilmore〔Gilmore was nominated for the second time by President Clinton on April 2, 1993. An earlier nomination of August 10, 1992 was not acted upon by the Senate.〕 – Career FSO * *Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary * *Appointed: May 12, 1993 * *Presented credentials: May 31, 1993 * *Terminated mission: Left post, July 11, 1995 *Peter Tomsen – Career FSO * *Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary * *Appointed: June 27, 1995 * *Presented credentials: September 6, 1995 * *Terminated mission: Left post September 6, 1998 *Michael Craig Lemmon – Career FSO * *Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary * *Appointed: June 29, 1998 * *Presented credentials: September 21, 1998 * *Terminated mission: Left post October 1, 2001 *John Malcolm Ordway – Career FSO * *Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary * *Appointed: November 5, 2001 * *Presented credentials: November 23, 2001 * *Terminated mission: Left post July 31, 2004 *John Marshall Evans – Career FSO * *Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary * *Appointed: June 30, 2004 * *Presented credentials: September 4, 2004 * *Terminated mission: Left post, September 10, 2006 *Post vacant September 10, 2006 – August 1, 2008 * *Rudolf V. Perina, ''Chargé d'Affaires a.i.'' *Marie L. Yovanovitch〔(United States Embassy in Yerevan: The Ambassador )〕 – Career FSO * *Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary * *Appointed: August 1, 2008 * *Presented credentials: unknown * *Terminated mission: June 3, 2011 *Bruce Donahue – Career FSO * *Chargé d'Affaires June 3, 2011 - October 6, 2011 *John A. Heffern〔(United States Embassy in Yerevan: The Ambassador )〕 – Career FSO * *Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary * *Appointed: October 6, 2011 * *Presented credentials: October 17, 2011 〔(Ambassador Heffern Presents Copies of Credentials to Foreign Minister Nalbandian )〕 * *Terminated mission: December, 2014 *Richard M. Mills, Jr.〔()〕 * *Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary * *Appointed: December, 2014 * *Presented credentials: December 16, 2014 * *Terminated mission: Incumbent 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United States Ambassador to Armenia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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