ACCESSION NUMBER:00000
FILE ID:95071702.WWE
DATE:07/17/95
TITLE:CLINTON NAMES COLLINS SPECIAL ADVISOR FOR NIS
TEXT:
(Text: White House announcement) (410)
Washington -- President Clinton announced July 12 his intention to
name James Franklin Collins as ambassador-at-large and special advisor
to the secretary of state for the New Independent States (NIS).
Following is the text of the announcement from the Office of the Press
Secretary of the White House:
(Begin text)
The president today announced his intention to nominate James Franklin
Collins, of Illinois, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,
class of minister-counselor, as ambassador-at-large and special
advisor to the secretary for the New Independent States.
Mr. Collins currently serves as senior coordinator, Office of the
Ambassador-at-Large for the New Independent States in the Department
of State. From October 1990 to November 1993, he served as deputy
chief of mission at the American Embassy in Moscow. Prior to his
Moscow tour, Mr. Collins held management positions with the Department
of State in Washington and worked extensively on Russian/Soviet and on
Middle East affairs. In addition to one other posting in Moscow, he
served as political counselor in Amman, Jordan, and as vice consul in
Izmir, Turkey. His Washington assignments have included tours on the
staff of the Secretary of State as deputy executive secretary for
Europe and Latin America and as director of the State Department's
Operations Center. He has served also as a member of the National
Security Council staff as director of intelligence policy, and held
positions in the Department of State in the Bureau of European Affairs
and Bureau of Near East and South Asian Affairs and Bureau of
Intelligence and Research. Mr. Collins holds Meritorious and Superior
Honor Awards from the Department of State. He was awarded the
Secretary of State's Award for Distinguished Service in January 1993
and the Department's Distinguished Honor Award in October 1993.
Before joining the Department of State, Mr. Collins taught Russian and
European History at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. He
holds an A.B. degree from Harvard University (1961) and an M.A. from
Indiana University (1964). In addition, be has conducted research as
an exchange fellow at Moscow University in 1965 and at the British
Museum in London in 1966. Mr. Collins has been married for 32 years to
Dr. Naomi F. Collins, presently executive director of the National
Association of International Educators (NAFSA). They have two grown
sons, Robert and Jonathan.
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