U.S.
EMBASSY
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New U.S. Ambassador B. Lynn Pascoe Presents
Credentials to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
November 25, 2004
bahasa
indonesia
The new U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, Mr. B. Lynn
Pascoe, presented his credentials to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Thursday, November 25.
Ambassador Pascoe is not new to the region. He served as U.S.
Ambassador to Malaysia before he took up duties as Deputy Assistant
Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department in
Washington, D.C. on September 4, 2001. Earlier, he served as U.S.
Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Regional Conflicts and the
U.S. Co-Chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group.
From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Pascoe was the Director of the American
Institute in Taiwan, the organization that carries out cultural,
commercial, and other relations between the people of the United States
and the people of Taiwan. He also served as the Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary in the East Asian and Pacific Bureau of the State
Department, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing,
Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of States, and Special
Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State.
In over three decades of his diplomatic career, he has held positions
on the Soviet and China desks, and has been posted to Moscow, Hong Kong
and Bangkok, as well as to Beijing twice, Taipei and Kuala Lumpur. He
speaks mandarin Chinese.
Born in Missouri in 1943, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree
from the University of Kansas and his Master of Arts from Columbia
University. He has also attended the U.S. National War College and the
State Department’s Senior Seminar. Ambassador Pascoe and his wife have
two grown daughters.
Ambassador Pascoe is looking forward to working with the government
of Indonesia and its people to build upon, strengthen and expand the
good and important relations between the two countries. He is also
looking forward to meeting with the members of the media at an early
opportunity.
Related link:
- Biographical data and photo of Ambassador
B. Lynn Pascoe
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