    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [April 26, 1991]
    [Page 437]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Nomination of Nicholas Platt To Be United States Ambassador to Pakistan
    April 26, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate Nicholas
    Platt, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
    Plenipotentiary to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He would succeed
    Robert B. Oakley.
        Since 1987 Ambassador Platt has served as U.S. Ambassador to the
    Republic of the Philippines. Prior to this Ambassador Platt served as
    Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of
    the Department of State, 1985-1987; U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of
    Zambia, 1982-1984; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International
    Organization Affairs, 1981-1982; and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of
    Defense for International Security Affairs, 1980-1981. Ambassador Platt
    served as a staff member of the National Security Council at the White
    House, 1978-1980; Director for Japanese Affairs for the Bureau of East
    Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State, 1977-1978; deputy
    chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan,
    1974-1977; and chief of the political section at the U.S. liaison office
    in Peking, China, 1973-1974. Ambassador Platt served at the Department
    of State as: Deputy Director and then Director of the Secretariat Staff,
    1971-1973; chief of the Asian Communist areas division in the Bureau of
    Intelligence and Research, 1969-1971; and China desk officer for the
    Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 1968-1969. He also served as a
    political officer at the American consulate general in Hong Kong, 1964-
    1968; Chinese language training at the Foreign Service Institute and in
    Taichung, Taiwan, 1962-1963; and as vice consul of the American
    consulate in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1959-1961. Ambassador Platt
    entered the Foreign Service in 1959.
        Ambassador Platt graduated from Harvard College (B.A., 1957) and the
    Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (M.A.,
    1959). He was born March 10, 1936, in New York, NY. Ambassador Platt is
    married, has three children, and resides in Washington, DC.