Nomination of Maynard Wayne Glitman To Be United States Ambassador to Belgium

The President today announced his intention to nominate Maynard Wayne Glitman, of Vermont, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium. He would succeed Geoffrey Swaebe.

Mr. Glitman entered the Foreign Service in 1956. From 1956 to 1957, he was an economic officer in the Department of State and then was a fiscal and financial officer, 1957-1959. He was a consular and economic officer in Nassau, 1956-1961, and also in Ottawa, 1961-1965. He attended Atlantic affairs studies at the University of California (Berkeley) from 1965 to 1966. From 1967 to 1968, he was an international relations officer in the Department of State, following which he was detailed to the United Nations General Assembly in 1967 and to the National Security Council in 1968. From 1968 to 1973, he was a political officer in Paris. He returned to the Department of State to be Director of the Office of International Trade Policy and subsequently was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Trade Policy. He was then detailed to the Department of Defense, where he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1976-1977. From 1977 to 1981, he was deputy chief of mission at the United States Mission to NATO in Brussels. He was then appointed Department of State representative and deputy negotiator to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Negotiations, with the rank of Ambassador, in Geneva from 1981 to 1984. In 1984 Mr. Glitman was chief U.S. representative at the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR) Talks in Vienna. Since 1985 he has been the chief U.S. negotiator for Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces in Geneva.

Mr. Glitman graduated from the University of Illinois (B.A., 1955) and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A., 1956). He was born December 8, 1933, in Chicago, IL. Mr. Glitman is married, has five children, and resides in Geneva, Switzerland.