For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 3, 2001
President Bush to Nominate Hull to be Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Yemen
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate
Edmund James Hull to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
the United States to Republic of Yemen.
A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he has been serving as
the Principle Deputy Coordinator for Counter-terrorism since 1999 and
has been a full participant in the interagency Counter-Terrorism
Security Group (CSG). As part of the CSG, he traveled to
Pakistan, India and Russia among other countries to coordinate U.S.
counter-terrorism efforts with those countries. Hull served
as the Director for UN Peacekeeping Operations in the Bureau of
International Organization Affairs from 1996 to 1999. From
1993 to 1996, he held the Deputy Chief of Mission post in
Cairo. He has held various posts both in Washington, D.C.
and abroad, including Director for Near Eastern Affairs at the National
Security Council, and Director of the Office of Iran and Iraq Affairs
at the Department of State. He is the recipient of various
awards including the Baker-Wilkins Award for Excellence in the
Direction and Management of Oversees Missions in 1995. Mr. Hull is a
graduate of Princeton University.
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