Ambassador Richard Hoagland is a career US diplomat and has served with distinction as the American Ambassador to Tajikistan, Richard Giragosian, expert of the Armenian International Police Research Group - AIPRG, Washington.DC. said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net. "The long delay over his confirmation, although in large part due to the State Department's refusal to use the term Genocide, should end and the case over his coming to Armenia closed. Armenia is losing more without an American ambassador present and it is time to end this confrontation. The real conflict is with US policy and not the person," he said.

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