[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[May 28, 1992]
[Page 840]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Edward Hurwitz To Be United States Ambassador to 
Kyrgyzstan

May 28, 1992
    The President today announced his intention to nominate Edward 
Hurwitz, of the District of Columbia, a career member of the Senior 
Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador of the 
United States of America to the Republic of Kyrgyzstan.
    Currently Mr. Hurwitz serves as Deputy Examiner of the Board of 
Examiners for the Foreign Service in Washington, DC. Prior to this, he 
served as Director of the Office of Analysis for the U.S.S.R. and 
Eastern Europe at the Department of State, 1988-91; Counsel General at 
the American Consulate in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., 1986-88; and Charge 
d'Affaires at the American Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1983-86.
    Mr. Hurwitz graduated from Cornell University (A.B., 1952). He was 
born March 21, 1931, in New York, NY. Mr. Hurwitz served in the U.S. 
Army, 1953-55. He is married, has two children, and resides in 
Washington, DC.