Obama suggested to Ian Kelly for the position the United States representative to the OSCE

President Obama nominated State Department spokesman Ian Kelly to the post of Representative of the United States in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the press service of the White House.

Kelly served as the official representative of the State Department in May 2009.

He will replace interim charge d’affaires of the United States in the OSCE Carol Fuller. The Department of State Kelly is one of the leading specialists on Russia – until the appointment of an official representative of Russia, he headed the department offices. Appointment of Kelly to the post of official representative of the State Department was seen as a Barack Obama administration’s desire to build relations with Russia. Introducing spring Kelley State Department employees and journalists, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed that he had spent much time abroad, has held various diplomatic posts, and so perfectly ready.

From 2004 to 2007, Kelly worked at the U.S. Mission to NATO from 1994 to 1996 was director of the State Department’s management program for the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union and coordinated the work of several agencies involved in “building democracy” in former socialist republics. Kelly as a State Department official who worked in Rome, Ankara, Vienna, Belgrade, Moscow, Leningrad and Milan, has a degree, is fluent in Russian language.

The President introduced to the Senate candidate Kelly on Monday night. Now the new U.S. representative to the OSCE should adopt a simple majority of senators.