The US Senate confirmed Ian Kelly as the new US ambassador to Georgia. The diplomat and his wife Francesca plan to arrive in Tbilisi in September. Richard Norland who was the US Ambassador to Georgia since July 27, 2012 has congratulated Kelly and began to prepare for departure.
Ian Kelly is a career diplomat of the minister-counselor class. From 2013 he worked as resident diplomat of the State Department at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Prior to this appointment, in 2010-2013, he was the US representative to the OSCE with the rank of ambassador.
