[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 26 (Monday, July 5, 1993)]
[Page 1210]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Nomination for Ambassadors and an Associate Administrator of the Agency 
for International Development

 June 30, 1993

    The President announced today that he intends to nominate Richard 
Holbrooke to be his Ambassador to Germany and Tom Niles as his 
Ambassador to Greece. In addition, the President announced that he has 
nominated Robert Houdek to be Ambassador to Eritrea and that he intends 
to nominate Larry Byrne to be the Associate Administrator for Finance 
and Administration at the Agency for International Development, U.S. 
International Development and Cooperation Agency.
    ``The people we are adding to our foreign policy team today are men 
of tremendous achievement and character,'' said the President. ``I am 
particularly glad that Richard Holbrooke will be serving our country as 
Ambassador to Germany. Throughout his years in Government and more 
recently as a leader in the private sector, he has demonstrated the 
talents that are needed for an important position such as this one.''

Note: Biographies of the nominees were made available by the Office of 
the Press Secretary.