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ForUm (Ukraine)
December 3, 2009


US ambassador presents credentials


-John F. Tefft has been a career Foreign Service Officer for 37 years.  He most 
recently served as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Georgia, from 
2005-2009. Prior to that assignment Tefft served as Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and was responsible for US 
relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.
-In 2003-2005 Tefft was the International Affairs Advisor at the National War 
College in Washington, DC. He served as the United States Ambassador to 
Lithuania from 2000 to 2003.


The United States' new ambassador to Ukraine, John Tefft, has handed in the 
copies of his letters of credence to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro 
Poroshenko.

The minister wished the ambassador fruitful work in his new office. 

The upper house of the United States Congress, the Senate, supported the 
appointment of John Tefft as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Tefft for the post late in September 
2009, dependent on a final decision left to the discretion of the U.S. Senate. 

John F. Tefft has been a career Foreign Service Officer for 37 years.  He most 
recently served as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Georgia, from 
2005-2009. Prior to that assignment Tefft served as Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and was responsible for US 
relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.  

In 2003-2005 Tefft was the International Affairs Advisor at the National War 
College in Washington, DC. He served as the United States Ambassador to 
Lithuania from 2000 to 2003. He was deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy 
in Moscow from 1996 to 1999, and served as Charge d'affaires from November 1996 
to September 1997.  

His other Foreign Service assignments include: Jerusalem, Budapest and Rome.  
Tefft holds a Bachelors Degree from Marquette University and a Masters Degree 
from Georgetown University. 
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