Bahrain Mirror: The US Assistant Secretary of State for near east affairs Ambassador Stuart E. Jones is set to arrive in Bahrain today on Tuesday (March 14, 2017).

Jones will take part as a main speaker at the bi-annual forum of AmCham Mena regional council, organized by the American Chamber of Commerce and to be held tomorrow on Wednesday.

It is noteworthy that Stuart E. Jones was appointed Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East Affairs Bureau on January 9, 2017. Ambassador Jones had previously served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State since October 3, 2016. He also previously served as US Ambassador to Iraq from 2014-2016 and as Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 2011-2014. He was Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Baghdad in 2010-2011, Governorate Coordinator in Al Anbar Province in 2004, and Country Director for Iraq at the National Security Council. From 2008-2010, Jones also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. Other foreign tours include Turkey, El Salvador and Colombia and he was Special Assistant to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright.

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