ACCESSION NUMBER:00000

FILE ID:95042101.POL

DATE:04/21/95

TITLE:WHITE HOUSE REPORT, FRIDAY, APRIL 21



TEXT:

(Ambassadors) (260)



FIVE AMBASSADORS SELECTED



President Clinton will nominate ambassadors to Latvia, Estonia, the

Czech Republic, Armenia and Tajikistan, the White House announced

April 20.



Clinton has chosen Jenonne Walker, a former member of the staff of the

National Security Council, to be ambassador to Prague. She is now on

the staff of the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. Walker

was an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency and as a private

author has published dissertations on U.S. relations with Europe.



The other four nominees are all career Foreign Service officers with

the rank of minister counselor.



Clinton will ask the Senate to confirm the nomination of Larry Napper

to be ambassador to Riga. Napper was deputy chief of mission in

Bucharest and also served in Moscow and Gaborone.



The president will name Lawrence Taylor, director of the National

Foreign Affairs Training Center, to be ambassador to Tallinn. Taylor

has served in Santo Domingo, Zagreb, Belgrade, Jakarta, London and

Ottawa.



He has selected Peter Tomsen, principal deputy assistant secretary of

state for East Asian affairs, to be ambassador to Yerevan. Tomsen has

served as special envoy to the Afghanistan Resistance and as deputy

chief of mission in Beijing. He also served in Moscow and New Delhi.



Clinton will name Grant Smith, most recently deputy assistant

secretary of state for international narcotics matters, to be envoy to

Dushanbe. Smith was deputy chief of mission in New Delhi and Bangui,

and also served in Brazil, Nepal and Pakistan.

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