Nomination of Peter Jon de Vos To Be United States Ambassador to Mozambique

The President today announced his intention to nominate Peter Jon de Vos, of Florida, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, as Ambassador to the People's Republic of Mozambique. He would succeed Willard A. De Pree.

In 1962 Mr. de Vos entered the Foreign Service as Foreign Service officer for Brazil, in the Department. He was political officer in Naples (1966-1968), deputy principal officer in Luanda (1968-1970), political officer in Sao Paulo (1970-1971) and in Brasilia (1971-1973). In the Department he was Special Assistant in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs in 1973-1975. He was political officer in Athens in 1975-1978 and attended the National War College in 1978-1979. In 1979-1980 he was Deputy Director of Southern African Affairs in the Department. In 1980-1983 he was Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and to the Republic of Cape Verde.

Mr. de Vos graduated from Princeton University (B.A., 1960) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A., 1962). His foreign languages are Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Greek. He was born December 24, 1938, in San Diego, Calif.