United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Republic of Maldives Nomination of Donald R. Toussaint.

The President today announced that he will nominate Donald R. Toussaint, of McLean, Va., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and to serve concurrently as Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives. He would replace W. Howard Wriggins, who is retiring. Toussaint has been Deputy Chief of Mission in Manila since 1978.

He was born May 21, 1927, in Oakland, Calif. He received a B.A. (1947) and Ph. D. ( 1956 ) from Stanford University, an M.A. from Yenching University in Peking in 1949, and a graduate diploma from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris in 1952. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1946.

From 1947 to 1949, Toussaint was a teacher at Yenching University, and in 1950-51 he was a teaching assistant at Stanford. From 1952 to 1953, he was director of the overseas development program of Stanford's Hoover Institute, and in 1953—54 he was an instructor with the University of Maryland overseas program.

Toussaint joined the Foreign Service in 1956 and served as a foreign affairs officer at the State Department. He took Indonesian language training in 1958-59 and was a political officer in Jakarta from 1959 to 1960. From 1960 to 1961, he was consular and administrative officer in Medan, and from 1961 to 1964, he was economic officer in Jakarta.

From 1964 to 1968, Toussaint was at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, as adviser, then senior adviser for political and security affairs. He attended the Imperial Defense College in London in 1969-70 and was counselor for political affairs in Tehran from 1970 to 1972. From 1972 to 1975, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Jakarta.

In 1975-76 Toussaint attended the senior seminar in foreign policy. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1976 to 1977 and deputy coordinator of the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology from 1977 to 1978.