Nomination of Warren Zimmermann for the Rank of Ambassador While Serving as Chief of the United States Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe

The President today announced his intention to nominate Warren Zimmermann for the rank of Ambassador in his capacity as Chief of the United States delegation to the Vienna Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe followup meeting.

Mr. Zimmermann was a staff reporter for the Munroe News Bureau in Washington, DC, from 1960 to 1961. He began his career in the Foreign Service in 1961. From 1962 to 1964, he served as consular and political officer in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1964 he was assigned to the Foreign Service Institute to study Serbo-Croatian. From there, in 1965-1968 he served as political officer in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He returned in 1968-1970 to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research as a Soviet policy analyst. In 1970-1973 he served as a special assistant to the Secretary of State in the Office of the Counselor. In 1973 he studied Russian at the Foreign Service Institute and from there became deputy counselor for politico-military affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. In 1975-1977 he returned to the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, where he was assigned as a Special Assistant for Policy Planning. In 1977-1980 Mr. Zimmermann was counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France. In 1980-1981 he was Deputy Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Madrid, Spain, and in 1981 became deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. From 1984 to 1985, he was a visiting fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. In 1985 he became deputy to the head of the United States delegation to the arms reduction negotiations in Geneva with the personal rank of Ambassador.

Mr. Zimmermann graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1956) and Cambridge University (M.A., 1958). He served in the U.S. Army in 1959. His foreign languages are Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and French. He is married, has three children, and resides in Great Falls, VA. He was born November 16, 1934, in Philadelphia, PA.