Appointment of Maynard W. Glitman as the United States Representative for the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions Negotiations

The President today announced his intention to appoint Maynard W. Glitman, of Vermont, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be the Representative of the United States of America for Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions Negotiations, and his intention to nominate Mr. Glitman for the rank of Ambassador. He would succeed Morton I. Abramowitz.

Mr. Glitman entered the Foreign Service in 1956 as economic officer in the Department and was fiscal and financial officer in 1957-1959. He was consular and economic officer in Nassau (1959-1961) and economic officer in Ottawa (1961-1965). He attended Atlantic affairs studies at the University of California in 1965-1966. In 1966-1968 he was international relations officer in the Department, and he was political officer in Paris in 1968-1973. In the Department he was Director of the Office of International Trade Policy (1974-1976). He was on detail as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in 1976-1977. In 1977-1981 he was deputy chief of mission at the United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels. Since 1981 he has been Department of State Representative and Deputy Head of the United States Delegation to the Intermediate-range Nuclear Force negotiations, with the rank of Ambassador, in Geneva.

Mr. Glitman was born December 8, 1933, in Chicago, IL. He graduated from the University of Illinois (B.A., 1955) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

(M.A., 1956). His foreign language is fluent

French.