John Heffern, who served as the US Ambassador to Armenia from 2011 to 2014, has been appointed Acting Assistant Secretary at the Bureau Of European and Eurasian Affairs of the US Department of State, informed the latter’s website.

As reported earlier, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, has quit her post.

Heffern works as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the aforementioned bureau, ever since August 2015.