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Saturday, June 19, 2010
US Ambassador Patterson to leave Pakistan in August* US Ambassador to Indonesia Cameron R Hume likely to be Patterson’s replacement
By Iqbal Choudhry
ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador Anne W Paterson is likely to leave Pakistan in August and also retiring from her duties, highly-placed sources told Daily Times on Friday.
Patterson, a career Foreign Service Officer, was born in 1949 and started her service in 1973.
She served as the acting US ambassador to the United Nations in 2005 and has served as the US ambassador to Pakistan since May 2007.
Patterson served as US State Department economic officer, consular to Saudi Arabia from 1984 to 1988, and then as a political consular at the US States Mission to the UN in Geneva from 1988 to 1991.
Patterson served as the State Department director for Andean Countries from 1991 to 1993 and served as the deputy assistant secretary for Inter-American Affairs from 1993 to 1996.
Replacement: Diplomatic sources said Cameron R Hume, presently the US Ambassador to Indonesia, is likely to be the new US ambassador to Pakistan.
His earlier assignments include Italy, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, the UN and the Holy See.
More recently, he has served as the ambassador to Algeria and South Africa, and as Chargé d’Affaires to Sudan.
He has published three books and numerous articles on foreign policy and has been a guest scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard University’s Centre for International Affairs, and the US Institute for Peace.
Hume is a lawyer and admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia. His has a command over Arabic, French and Italian.
US embassy spokesman said although Patterson was leaving, he could not give an exact date in this regard.
Regarding Patterson’s replacement, he said Washington would decide about the posting of new the US ambassador to Pakistan. app
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk