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The U.S. Senate confirmed the following ambassador nominations on Wednesday, September 28. Five nominations included in SFRC’s business meeting on September 27 did not make it to the full Senate vote (see bottom list). About 17 other ambassador nominations and FS lists are currently pending in committee and do not have scheduled hearings as of this writing.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Executive Calendar #728
Rena Bitter – to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Executive Calendar #729
Sung Y. Kim – to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of the Philippines
Executive Calendar #730
Andrew Robert Young – to be Ambassador of the United States of America to Burkina Faso
Executive Calendar #731
W. Stuart Symington – to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Executive Calendar #732
Joseph R. Donovan Jr. – to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Indonesia
UNITED NATIONS
Executive Calendar #733
Christopher Coons – to be Representative of the United States of America to the Seventy-first Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations
Executive Calendar #734
Ronald H. Johnson – to be Representative of the United States of America to the Seventy-first Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations
Waiting for full Senate vote:
The following nomination and FS lists were in the agenda of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but appear not to make it through the full Senate vote. Note that the hyperlinked lists are those posted in the Senate’s Executive Calendar.
Ms. Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir, of Connecticut, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Malaysia
Jorge A. Abudei, et al., dated September 6, 2016 (PN 1704), as amended — (PN1704-2)
John Robert Adams, et al., dated September 6, 2016 (PN 1705) – (PN1705)
Jennisa Paredes, et al., dated July 13, 2016 (PN 1643), as amended — (PN1643-2)
Diana Isabel Acosta, et al., dated July 13, 2016 (PN 1642), as amended — (PN1642-2)
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