[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[February 10, 1992]
[Pages 221-222]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Ints M. Silins To Be United States Ambassador to Latvia

February 10, 1992
    The President has announced his intention to nominate Ints M. 
Silins, of Virginia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, 
class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 
of the United States of America to Latvia.
    Currently Mr. Silins serves as Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy 
in Riga, Latvia. Prior to this, he served as U.S. consul general in 
Strasbourg, France, 1989-

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1991; Deputy Director for Bilateral Political Relations for the Office 
of Soviet Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, 1987-1989; a fellow 
at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, 1986-
1987; Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, 
Sweden, 1983-1986; and Deputy Principal Officer for the U.S. consulate 
general in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., 1981-1983.
    Mr. Silins graduated from Princeton University (A.B., 1965). He was 
born March 25, 1942, in Riga, Latvia. Mr. Silins served in the U.S. Army 
Reserve, 1966-1972. He is married, has four children, and resides in 
Alexandria, VA.