Nomination of Warren Zimmermann To Be United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia

The President today announced his intention to nominate Warren Zimmermann, of Virginia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be Ambassador to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He would succeed John Douglas Scanlon.

Mr. Zimmermann was a staff reporter for the Munroe News Bureau before entering the Foreign Service in 1961. From 1962 to 1964, he was consular and political officer in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1964, he was assigned to the Foreign Service Institute to study Serbo-Croatian and served as political officer in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1965-1968. He returned in 1968 to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research as a Soviet policy analyst and served as a special assistant to the Secretary of State in the Office of the Counselor, 1970-1973. In 1973, he studied Russian at the Foreign Service Institute and from there became deputy counselor of embassy for politico-military affairs in Moscow. From 1975 to 1977, he was special assistant for policy planning at the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs at the Department of State. He was counselor for political affairs in Paris, France, 1977-1980; Deputy Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Madrid, Spain; and deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, 1981. He was a visiting fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations, 1984-1985; and deputy to the head of the U.S. delegation to the arms reduction negotiations in Geneva with the personal rank of Ambassador, 1985. He currently is Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Vienna followup meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Mr. Zimmermann graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1956) and Cambridge University (M.A., 1958). He was born November 16, 1934, in Philadelphia, PA. He served in the U.S. Army in 1959. He is married, has three children, and resides in Virginia.