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THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                          (New York, New York)
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For Immediate Release                                     April 24, 2000

              PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES BRIAN DEAN CURRAN AS
                       U. S. AMBASSADOR TO HAITI

     President Clinton announced today his intent to nominate Brian Dean

Curran to be U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti.

Ambassador Brian Dean Curran, of Seminole, Florida, is a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor. He joined the Foreign Service in l973 and served in Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Belgium, France and Ireland before taking up his current assignment as United States Ambassador to Mozambique.

Ambassador Curran received his bachelor's degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an M.A. in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University. His languages are French and Portuguese.

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