After achieving independence from the Soviet Union,the Republic of Moldova established relations with other European countries. A course for European Union integration and neutrality define the country's foreign policy guidelines.
John F. Tefft is an American diplomat who has served as a Foreign Service Officer since 1972. He was the United States Ambassador to Russia between July 31,2014 and September 28,2017. He had previously served as the United States' ambassador to Ukraine,Georgia,and Lithuania.
The OSCE Minsk Group was created in 1992 by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE),now Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),to encourage a peaceful,negotiated resolution to the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Matthew James Bryza is a former United States diplomat. His last post in the United States foreign service was the United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
Richard Eugene Hoagland is a career ambassador in the United States Department of State. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in State's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs from 2013-2015. In the summer of 2016,based at the U.S. Embassy in Amman,Jordan,he was the senior U.S. liaison to the Russian Reconciliation Center at the Russian military base in Latakia,Syria. In 2017 he served as interim U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,the group appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to coordinate international peace-making efforts on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Republic of Abkhazia is a partially recognized state in the South Caucasus which declared independence from Georgia during the War in Abkhazia (1992–1993). At the time,the Soviet Union had recently collapsed (1991).
John Ross Beyrle is an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer and specialist in Russian and Eastern European affairs,he served as Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federation from July 3,2008,until January 10,2012,and as Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2005 to 2008.
According to the 2012 U.S. Global Leadership Report,53% of Azerbaijanis approve of U.S. leadership,with 27% disapproving and 21% uncertain.
Richard Boyce Norland is an American diplomat. He has served as the United States Ambassador to Libya.
Heidi Tagliavini is a Swiss former diplomat noted for her service with international aid and peacekeeping missions;a 2003 profile in the monthly magazine of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called her "Switzerland's outstanding diplomat". She was charged with leading the European Union investigation into the causes of the 2008 Russo-Georgian war,and represented the OSCE in the 2015 negotiations about the Minsk II agreement concerning the war in Donbass.
Bilateral ties exist between Azerbaijan and Italy. Azerbaijan has an embassy in Rome,while Italy has an embassy in Baku. Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Vafa Guluzade was an Azerbaijani diplomat,political scientist and specialist in conflict resolution. He worked as Foreign Policy State Advisor for the President of Azerbaijan between 1990-1999.
James Warlick is a US diplomat,former United States Ambassador to Bulgaria.
Richard Merrill Mills Jr. is an American diplomat who serves as the United States deputy ambassador to the United Nations. He served as the U.S. Chargéd'Affaires and Acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations between January 20,2021,and February 24,2021,when Linda Thomas-Greenfield became ambassador. In July 2022,he was announced as the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Nigeria.
Kelly Ann Keiderling-Franz is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Uruguay from 2016 to 2019 and has served as Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova since 2022.
Rudolf Vilem Perina was an American diplomat who specialized for more than three decades in European East–West relations during and after the Cold War,and on the Dayton Accords following the dissolution of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. This includes participating in the 1988 Moscow summit meeting between President Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev,during the former's first visit to the USSR. He also served as ambassador to the Republic of Moldova,U.S. Special Negotiator for Eurasian Conflicts in the former Soviet Union,Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs in the State Department,director of European and Soviet Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council,and was on the policy planning staff of the State Department under Colin Powell before and after the invasion of Iraq.
David Zalkaliani is a Georgian career diplomat serving as the Ambassador of Georgia to the United States. From June 21,2018 to April 4,2022 he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. From January 21,2021 to April 4,2022 he was also Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia.
Julie D. Fisher is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Cyprus since February 2023. She previously served as the United States ambassador to Belarus from 2020 to 2022.
Allan Phillip Mustard is a retired American agricultural economist and career diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Turkmenistan from 2014 to 2019. He was the chair of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (2019-2021),and advises the Caspian Policy Center.
Michael R. Carpenter is an American diplomat serving as United States ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the Biden administration.
