For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 9, 2003
President Bush Announced His Intention to Nominate Noriega
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate
one individual to serve as a member of his administration:
The President intends to nominate Roger Francisco Noriega of
Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere
Affairs. Ambassador Noriega is currently the Permanent Representative
of the United States of America to the Organization of American States
(OAS), a post he has held since August of 2001. Prior to his
appointment as a member of the OAS, Ambassador Noriega served as a
senior staff member for both the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
U.S. Senate, and the Committee on International Relations of the U.S.
House of Representatives. In addition, he served at USAID and the
Bureaus for Inter-American Affairs and Public Affairs at the State
Department. In December of 2001, the government of Peru decorated
Ambassador Noriega as "Gran Master of the Order of the Sun" for his
support for the democratic transition and promotion of human rights in
the South American country. Ambassador Noriega is a graduate of
Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.
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