American ambassador sworn in
NZPA Washington Mr Paul Cleveland was sworn in yesterday as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand. The United States Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Mr Michael Armacost, officiated at the ceremony held at the State Department. The New Zealand Ambassador to the United States, Sir Wallace Rowling, attended, as did Lady Rowling, Mr John Wood, Minister at the New Zealand Embassy, and Mrs Wood. Mr Cleveland, aged 58, a senior and highly rated United States Foreign Affairs career diplomat, is expected to take up his post in Wellington in the first week of January.
He has had more than 25 years of service and experience in the Pacific area, and from 1982 was deputy chief of mission in Seoul. Mr Cleveland has also been an economic and political officer in Canberra, economic officer in Jakarta, and political-military officer and political counsellor in Seoul.
He has also served in a number of Pacific-related positions in the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau in the State Department.
The new Ambassador is a graduate of Yale University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
He and Mrs Cleveland have two sons and two daughters.
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