YEREVAN. Marie L. Yovanovitch will complete her 3-year mission as U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia in June 2011.

She will return to Washington and take up the post of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Northern and Central Europe, Spokeswoman for U.S. Embassy in Yerevan Taguhi Jahukyan informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As reported earlier, Armenian mass media spread information that Yovanovitch will soon assume a new post at U.S. State Department. According to some reports, Yovanovitch will leave Armenia in early June.