US appoints new ambassador to Azerbaijan

The US State Department has told AzarTAc news agency that former head of the US diplomatic mission to Kosovo and Prishtina Reno Harnish will be appointed as new US ambassador to Azerbaijan.

Reno Harnish has worked as deputy US ambassador to Sweden for a period 1996-1993, deputy head of the US diplomatic mission to Cairo in September 1999-2002, where he exerted immense efforts with the Egyptian government for the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

According to the US State Department, Reno Harnish has worked on political and economic development programs in Central Asia and played an important role in addressing civil war in Tajikistan. Furthermore, he has worked as advisor for scientific and technological issues in Rome, economic consultant in Berlin and Vienna.*