Nomination of Patricia Mary Byrne To Be an Alternate United States Representative to the 43d Session of the United Nations General Assembly

The President today announced his intention to nominate Patricia Mary Byrne to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the 43d Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (September 20 to December 1988).

Since 1985 Ambassador Byrne has been Deputy U.S. Representative to the Security Council of the United Nations in New York, NY. Prior to this, she was research professor of diplomacy at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, 1983-1985, and a foreign affairs fellow, since 1983. She has also served as Ambassador to Burma, 1979-1983, and Ambassador to Mali, 1976-1979. Ambassador Byrne attended the senior seminar at the Foreign Service Institute, 1975-1976; Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Columbia, Sri Lanka, 1973-1975; and a political officer at the American Embassy in Paris, 1969-1973. Ambassador Byrne was an Alternate Representative of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly's 40th, 41st, and 42d sessions.

Ambassador Byrne graduated from Vassar College (B.A., 1946) and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (M.A., 1947). She was born June 1, 1925, in Cleveland, OH, and currently resides in New York, NY.