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Biography B. Lynn Pascoe Ambassador to Malaysia

Ambassador B. Lynn Pascoe arrived in Kuala Lumpur to take up his duties on January 21, 1999. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Pascoe most recently served as the U.S. Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Regional Conflicts and the U.S. Co-Chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Minsk Group. He had earlier acted as a Senior Adviser in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and at the United States Mission to the United Nations. From 1993 to 1996, he was the Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the organization that carries out cultural, commercial and other relations between the people of the United States and the people of Taiwan Ambassador Pascoe has served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the East Asian and Pacific Bureau of the State Department, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State, and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State In his three decades in the Foreign Service, he has also held positions on the Soviet and China desks, and been posted to Moscow, Hong Kong and Bangkok, as well as to Beijing twice, and to Taipei. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and Russian. Born in Missouri in 1943, Ambassador Pascoe received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas and his Master of Arts from Columbia University. He has also attended the U.S. National War College and the State Department's Senior Seminar. Ambassador Pascoe and his wife, Diana, have two grown daughters. Released by the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs January 2000. [end of document] Click for photograph. || East Asian and Pacific Affairs | EAP Chiefs of Mission | EAP Country Information | U.S. Department of State | Disclaimers ||