ACCESSION NUMBER:00000
FILE ID:95121205.EEA
DATE:12/12/95
TITLE:12-12-95  CONGRESSIONAL REPORT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12

TEXT:
(SFRC: Ambassador nominations, China, START II Treaty) (410)

Washington -- The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations approved
without objection 18 ambassadorial nominations, a resolution on
Chinese human rights practices (S.J. Res. 43) with one amendment, and
the START II nuclear arms reduction treaty (Tr. Doc. 103-1) at a
December 12 business meeting.

The committee also approved legislation amending the NATO
Participation Action of 1994, as well as legislation to extend the au
pair programs (S. 1465), a resolution on U.S. troops in Panama (S.
Con. Res. 14), a resolution on the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical
Patriarchate (S. Con. Res. 25), and a resolution on Cyprus (H. Con.
Res. 42).

Among the 18 ambassadorial nominations approved by the committee were
former Senator Jim Sasser as Ambassador to the People's Republic of
China; Don Lee Gevirtz as Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji,
Ambassador to the Republic of Nauru, Ambassador to the United Kingdom
of Tonga, and Ambassador to Tuvalu; William H. Itoh as Ambassador to
the Kingdom of Thailand; John Raymond Malott as Ambassador to
Malaysia; Joan M. Plaisted as Ambassador to the Republic of the
Marshall Islands and Ambassador to the Republic of Kiribati; Kenneth
Michael Quinn as Ambassador of Cambodia; J. Stapleton Roy as
Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia; and Sandra J. Kristoff as
U.S. Coordinator for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) with
the rank of Ambassador.

Other nominations included A. Peter Burleigh as Ambassador to the
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and Ambassador to the
Republic of Maldives; Frances D. Cook as Ambassador to the Sultanate
of Oman; Robert E. Gribbin, III, as Ambassador to the Republic of
Rwanda; Richard Henry Jones as Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon;
James A. Joseph as Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa; David
P. Rawson as Ambassador to the Republic of Mali; Gerald Wesley Scott
as Ambassador to the Republic of the Gambia; Thomas W. Simons, Jr. as
Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Charles H. Twining as
Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon; and James Franklin Collins as
Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for
the New Independent States.

The Committee also reported the nomination of Ralph R. Johnson as
Ambassador to the Slovak Republic and Charles H. Twining as Ambassador
to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
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