[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.