BELGRADE -- Three influential countries and important partners of Serbia - the U.S., Germany and Russia - have done or will soon send their new ambassadors to Serbia.
Tanjug learned at the German Embassy that the new ambassador, Heinz Wilhelm, who will replace Wolfram Maas, has already arrived in Belgrade.
The German diplomat should present his credentials in mid-September, after which he will officially take office.
Wilhelm was previously the deputy head of EU Law Division at the German Foreign Ministry.
According to Tanjug's information, the next U.S. ambassador to Serbia will be Michael Kirby.
The news about Kirby being a candidate for the ambassador was announced on Twitter by the White House and the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade in June.
Kirby has been a career diplomat at the U.S. Department of State for 27 years. He performed important functions in the U.S. diplomatic missions in Moldavia, South Korea, Germany, Denmark, Tanzania and Guyana.
At the time he was appointed candidate for ambassador in Serbia, he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of State.
Kirby will replace Mary Warlick as head of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Belgrade.
Aleksandr Konuzin is also ending his term, but it is still unknown who will replace him at the head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Serbia.
It has been speculated that Aleksandr Chepurin will be the country's next ambassador to Serbia, but, as Tanjug learned in Moscow, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has not yet sent a request for his accreditation.
The Russian electronic media report he is currently Director of the MFA's Department working with compatriots abroad, and that since 1975 he has served in various diplomatic posts in the MFA's central apparatus and abroad.
Chepurin was also th director of Department of Human Resources and Russia's ambassador to Denmark, and according to diplomatic circles, he has never dealt with the Balkans in his diplomatic career.
Source: http://www.b92.net//eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=09&dd=06&nav_id=82115
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