Career Diplomats Picked for Pakistan, Tunisia Posts
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Bush has announced that he is appointing two career diplomats as ambassadors to Pakistan and to Tunisia.
Bush said Friday that he would appoint Nicholas Platt, 55, who has been serving as ambassador to the Philippines since 1987, to the embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.
The President also said he was nominating John Thomas McCarthy, 51, as ambassador to Tunisia. McCarthy joined the Foreign Service in 1962 and has served in several European and Far Eastern posts.
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