New ambassador to Ukraine is named

WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton on October 2 announced the nomination of Steven Karl Pifer, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, as United States ambassador to Ukraine.

Mr. Pifer completed in August an assignment as special assistant to the president and senior director on the National Security Council staff for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasian Affairs. He entered the Foreign Service in January 1978.

In addition to several assignments at the State Department, Mr. Pifer has served abroad in Warsaw, Geneva, Moscow and London. He was deputy senior coordinator for the new independent States at the State Department before joining the NSC in December 1994. He assumed the position of Senior director in August 1996.

Mr. Pifer, who is from California, earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1976. He and his wife, Dr. Marilyn Pifer, have a daughter, Christine.

The nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 12, 1997, No. 41, Vol. LXV

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