evidence: Julie Jiyoon Chung, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counsellor, has been confirmed by the United States Senate as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The Senate on Saturday approved the nomination of Julie Chung by a Voice Vote. President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Julie Chung as Ambassador to represent the United States in Sri Lanka and the Maldives on June 15,2021 and the nomination was received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations on July 19, 2021. Chung, who was serving as the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, will also serve concurrently as Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives.