    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [January 18, 1991]
    [Pages 53-54]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Nomination of Melissa Foelsch Wells To Be United States Ambassador to
    Zaire
    January 18, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate Melissa
    Foelsch Wells, of Connecticut, a career member of the Senior Foreign
    Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador Extraordinary and
    Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of
    Zaire. She would succeed William Caldwell Harrop.

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        Currently Ambassador Wells serves as the United States Ambassador to
    the People's Republic of Mozambique. Prior to this, Ambassador Wells
    served as director of the IMPACT Program in Geneva, Switzerland, 1982-
    1986; resident representative of the United Nations Development Program
    and special representative to the United Nations Secretary-General for
    relief operations in Uganda, 1979-1982; U.S. Representative on the
    Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, 1977-1979; U.S.
    Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1976-1977; and commercial
    counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, 1975-1976. She has
    also served as deputy director for major export projects at the
    Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, 1973-1975; chief of the
    business relations branch in the Bureau of Economic Affairs, 1972-1973;
    personnel officer for the Board of Examiners, 1971-1972; and economic
    officer at the U.S. Embassy in London, England, 1966-1970. Ambassador
    Wells has also served as an economic officer at the U.S. Mission to the
    Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France,
    1964-1966. From 1958 to 1961, Ambassador Wells served in several
    capacities at the Department of State.
        Ambassador Wells graduated from Georgetown University (B.S., 1956).
    She was born November 18, 1932, in Tallinn, Estonia. Ambassador Wells is
    married and has two children.