The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, nominated several candidates for ambassadorial, judicial, and high administrative positions, including the new US ambassador to Serbia, it was published on the official page of the White House.
Among the nominees is Michael Young from Utah, who has been proposed for Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the United States of America to Serbia.
Michael Young is a respected American lawyer, a diplomat whom the US President proposed as the new ambassador to Serbia.
He is an experienced expert in international law and diplomacy who, during his career, held high positions in the State Department and led several major American universities.
“He is not a career diplomat, but a seasoned heavyweight in the legal profession,” Petar Ivičić from the Pupin Initiative told RTS.
He was the president of the University of Utah from 2004 to 2011, then the president of the University of Washington, and then also the president of Texas A&M University. By education he is a lawyer, he graduated from Brigham Young University, and earned his doctorate in law at Harvard Law School.
In the administration of President George H.W. Bush, he worked in the State Department as a deputy legal advisor, deputy undersecretary for economic and agricultural affairs, and ambassador for trade and environmental affairs.
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He participated in the negotiations on the unification of Germany, the NAFTA agreement, and the negotiations that led to the creation of the World Trade Organization.
He was also the chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, which indicates significant experience in the field of foreign policy and international relations.
The US also nominated Ronald Johnson as the US ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As stated on the official website of the White House, Johnson’s nomination was sent to the US Senate along with the proposals of candidates for ambassadors in other countries.
Johnson is a retired brigadier general originally from the American state of Massachusetts.
He started his career in the Marines in 1980 as a platoon and company commander, and during his service he performed a series of command and international duties, including engagement in Cuba where he was the commander of the ground defense unit at the Guantanamo base.
He was a United Nations military observer in Lebanon and the Sinai, and he also participated in operations “Desert Shield” and “Desert Storm” during the Gulf War.
He retired from the military in 2010.