[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 36 (Monday, September 13, 1993)]
[Pages 1712-1713]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Nomination for Four Ambassadors

 September 8, 1993

    The President announced his intention today to nominate Alan John 
Blinken to be Ambassador to Belgium, Swanee Hunt to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Austria, and William Lacy Swing to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Haiti. In addition, the President announced that he has 
nominated Richard Wallace Teare to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
    ``These four individuals have all exhibited the level of 
accomplishment and excellence that Secretary Christopher and I have 
pledged that our Ambassadors would have,'' said the President. ``I am 
very proud of these choices.''

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