    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [June 12, 1991]
    [Page 643]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

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    Nomination of Christopher W.S. Ross To Be United States Ambassador to
    Syria
    June 12, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate Christopher
    W.S. Ross, of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
    Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Syrian Arab
    Republic. He would succeed Edward P. Djerejian.
        Since 1988 Ambassador Ross has served as the U.S. Ambassador to the
    Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria. Prior to this, Ambassador
    Ross served at the Department of State as Executive Assistant to the
    Under Secretary for Political Affairs, 1985-1988, and as Director of
    Regional Affairs at the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
    1984-1985. Ambassador Ross served as special assistant to the special
    Presidential envoys to Lebanon, the Middle East, and Tel Aviv, 1982-
    1984; at the Department of State as a public affairs adviser at the
    Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1981-1982; and as Deputy
    Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Algiers, Algeria, 1979-1981.
    Ambassador Ross served with the U.S. Information Agency in several
    capacities: public affairs officer in Algiers, Algeria, 1976-1979;
    information officer in Beirut, Lebanon, 1973-1976; branch public affairs
    officer in Fez, Morocco, 1970-1973; junior officer trainee in Tripoli,
    Libya, 1969-1970; and public affairs trainee in Washington, DC, 1968-
    1969. Ambassador Ross entered the U.S. Information Agency in 1968.
        Ambassador Ross graduated from Princeton University (A.B., 1965) and
    Johns Hopkins University (M.A., 1967). He was born March 3, 1943, in
    Quito, Ecuador. Ambassador Ross is married and resides in Algiers,
    Algeria.