THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                           (Lansing, Michigan)
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For Immediate Release                                      July 22, 1999

PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES NORMAN A. WULF AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR

      NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION WITH THE RANK OF AMBASSADOR AT THE 
                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

     The President today announced his intention to nominate Norman A.

Wulf to serve as Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation with the rank of Ambassador at the Department of State.

Mr. Norman A. Wulf, of Fairfax, Virginia, is a career member of the Senior Executive Service. Mr. Wulf served for fourteen years as Deputy Assistant Director for Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) before becoming Senior Advisor for Nuclear Nonproliferation at the Department of State. While at ACDA, he was intimately involved in all nuclear nonproliferation issues and led the first team of Americans to visit North Korea's nuclear facilities. Mr. Wulf also served as head of the U.S. negotiating team that achieved the first significant strengthening of nuclear safeguards applied by the International Atomic Energy Agency in over twenty years. Mr. Wulf received a LLM from the University of Miami in 1970, a J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1965 and a B.A. from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1962.

In his capacity as Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation, Mr. Wulf will be responsible for all matters relating to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the International Atomic Agency, nuclear weapon free zones and related issues.

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