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Bolton Hearing Set; Ex-U.S. Officials Protest
Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) has scheduled an April 7 confirmation hearing for President George W. Bush’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and a group of former U.S. diplomats plans to submit a letter protesting the choice, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, March 9). Early this month, Bush named Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton to the post, a choice that led 59 former State Department officials to protest the selection in letter to Lugar to be sent today, according to AP. “We urge you to reject the nomination,” says the letter, signed by a bipartisan group that includes Arthur Hartman, who served under presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, ultimately serving as ambassador to the Soviet Union. The letter says Bolton has an “an exceptional record” of rejecting arms control as an international security strategy and criticizes him for his “insistence that the U.N. is valuable only when it directly serves the United States.” Other signatories include Princeton Lyman, former ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria; Monteagle Stearns, former ambassador to Greece and the Ivory Coast; and Spurgeon Keeny, former deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Associated Press, New York Times, March 29).
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