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Accordance of the Personal Rank of Ambassador to Warren Zimmermann While Serving as Deputy to the Head of the United States Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Arms Negotiations With the Soviet Union

May 24, 1985

The President today accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to Warren Zimmermann, of Virginia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, in his capacity as deputy to the head of the United States delegation to the arms reduction negotiations in Geneva.

Mr. Zimmermann has been a career Foreign Service officer since he began his career in 1962-1964 in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1964 he was assigned to the Foreign Service Institute to study Serbo-Croatian. From there in 1965-1968 he served as political officer in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He returned in 1968-1970 to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research as a Soviet policy analyst. In 1970-1973 he served as a special assistant to the Secretary of State in the Office of the Counselor. In 1973 he studied Russian at the Foreign Service Institute and from there became Deputy Counselor of the U.S. Embassy for politico-military affairs in Moscow. In 1975-1977 he returned to the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, where he was assigned as Special Assistant for Policy Planning. In 1977-1980 Mr. Zimmermann was counselor of the U.S. Embassy for political affairs in Paris, France. In 1980-1981 he was Deputy Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Conference (CSCE) in Madrid, Spain, and in 1981 became deputy chief of mission at our Embassy in Moscow.

Mr. Zimmermann graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1956) and Cambridge University (M.A., 1958). His foreign languages are Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and French. He was born November 16, 1934, in Philadelphia, PA. He is married to the former Corinne Chubb, and they have three children.

Ronald Reagan, Accordance of the Personal Rank of Ambassador to Warren Zimmermann While Serving as Deputy to the Head of the United States Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Arms Negotiations With the Soviet Union Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/259873

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