Former U.S. permanent rep of NATO named special rep for Ukraine

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has appointed former U.S. ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker a special representative for Ukraine.

Volker will coordinate the efforts of the State Department for the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary's representative Robert Hammond said.

Volker was born in 1962. He is a specialist in international relations. Since 1986 he worked as an analyst in the CIA, since 1988 - in the U.S. Department of State. In 1998 he became the first secretary of the American mission to NATO, in 2005 - Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and in 2008-2009 he was the U.S. ambassador to NATO. During the past several years, he worked at the McCain International Republican Institute.