U.S. Embassy in Armenia confirmed the information on May 6 that Marie Yovanovitch will leave Armenia in June as her tour of duty concludes.

John Heffern may replace Yovanovitch, if Senate approves his candidacy, Zhamanak newspaper reports citing its sources. He assumed different posts in Malaysia, Japan, China and Indonesia. He is currently serving as Deputy Permanent Representative at the U.S. Mission to NATO.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, 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,