[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 20 (Monday, May 19, 1997)]
[Page 722]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Digest of Other White House Announcements   

The following list includes the President's public schedule and other 
items of general interest announced by the Office of the Press Secretary 
and not included elsewhere in this issue.

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May 10

    In the afternoon, the President met with President Rene Preval of 
Haiti at the Sherbourne Center in Bridgetown, Barbados.

May 12

    In the afternoon, the President returned to Washington, DC, arriving 
in the evening.

May 13

    The President announced his intention to appoint Betty Bednarczyk to 
serve as a member of the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and 
Quality in the Health Care Industry.
    The White House announced that the President invited President Kiro 
Gligorov of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to Washington, DC, 
for a working visit on June 17.

May 14

    In an afternoon ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received 
diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Saad Mohamed Al-Kobaisi of 
Qatar; Pengiran Anak Dato Seri Laila Jasa Jagi Puteh of Brunei; Osbert 
W. Liburd, of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Francisco Xavier Aguirre-Sacasa of 
Nicaragua; Riaz Hussain Khokhar of Pakistan; Alexdr Vondra of the Czech 
Republic; Alfred Defago of Switzerland; Grigore-Kalev Stoicescu of 
Estonia; Valery Tsepkalo of Belarus; Joseph Diatta of Niger; Mark 
Micallef of Malta; and Le Van Bang of Vietnam.

May 15

    The President announced his intention to appoint Ann Todd Free as a 
member of the Commission on Fine Arts.
    The White House announced that the President invited NATO Secretary 
General Javier Solana to Washington, DC, for a meeting at the White 
House on May 19.

May 16

    In the afternoon, the President met with President Leonid Kuchma of 
Ukraine in the Oval Office.
    The President announced his intention to nominate George Munoz to 
serve as President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Terry D. Garcia to 
be Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Mickey Ibarra to 
serve as Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental 
Affairs at the White House.