[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.