Robin Dunnigan appointed to oversee Ukraine policy at State Department

08.09.2021 16:54

Ukrinform

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has tapped Robin Dunnigan, a career diplomat with a background in energy, to oversee policy for Central and Eastern Europe at the Department of State, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has reported.

According to the report, she took up her new position on September 7.

Dunnigan, who served as deputy assistant secretary for energy diplomacy in the State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources from 2014 to 2017, will help craft policy toward Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, as well as Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

She had been serving at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna for the past three years, first as deputy chief of mission and most recently as charge d'affaires to Austria.

Dunnigan was an early critic of Russian plans to build the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

As Ukrinform reported, President Volodymyr Zelensky paid a working visit to the United States last week. Following talks with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on September 1, the Office of the President of Ukraine issued a joint statement on the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Kuleba called Zelensky's visit to Washington and his conversation with Biden a classic example of win-win deal.

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