Yerevan/Mediamax/. Appointment of Joint Ambassadors is an unprecedented case in Armenian diplomatic practice.

“The husband and wife team is appointed in the post of Ambassador to Armenia for the first time”, Mediamax was told in the Armenian Foreign Ministry.

According to the press release disseminated by the British Embassy the day before, Mr. Jonathan James Aves and Ms. Katherine Jane Leach, a husband and wife team, were appointed Her Majesty’s Joint Ambassadors to the Republic of Armenia and they will take up their appointment in January 2012.

Foreign Office employs such practice, and this is not the first case when a diplomatic mission is carried out by a husband and wife team, Mediamax was told in the British Embassy.

For the first time, the British Foreign Office appointed the husband and wife team in the post of Joint Ambassadors to Zambia in 2008. The couple had worked in the position of Vice -Ambassador in Bratislava before. At that, their work was carried out in 4- month rotation system, the same system due to be realized in Armenia. The practice is used by the Foreign Office in appointing high-ranking positions as well.

“Appointment of Joint Ambassadors will contribute to the development of Armenian-British relations.

Mr. Jonathan James Aves and Ms. Katherine Jane Leach have a great desire to make their own contribution to this process”, Mediamax was informed in the British Embassy.