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Republican Senator Tom Tillis, whose term is coming to an end, has announced that he will block Alexander Alden's candidacy for the position of US ambassador to Baku. In an interview with Semfor reporter Eleanor Mueller, the senator said that the reason for this was Alden's close ties with Milord Dudik, former president of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"I will not let it pass the Senate. He might be considered, but I won't let it pass. That means it won't happen this term of Congress," said the Republican senator from North Carolina.
Mueller asked whether the nomination would be stalled in the next session of Congress, when Democrats gain control of the Senate. "I'd venture to guess you're probably right," Tillis responded.
It should be noted that President Trump appointed Alden to the position of US ambassador to Azerbaijan in June of this year.
Mueller previously wrote for Semafor that Alden is the initiator of the change in relations between the US administration and the president of the Republic of Srpska Milord Dudik. In addition, she said Alden was born in Sarajevo and changed his last name. In the past his last name was Molavdich.
Dudik is a Bosnian politician who served as the President of Republika Srpska from 2022 to 2025. He has close ties with Russia and personally with President Putin, and has visited Moscow and met with him several times. He was removed from public office after being found guilty of disobeying the decisions of the international envoy who oversaw the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in the Balkans.
The Armenian diaspora traditionally tries to block the appointment of American ambassadors in Baku, and sometimes succeeds. For example, the Armenian lobby once blocked the confirmation of Ambassador Matthew Breeze in the Senate for a long time.