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President announces appointment of three individuals to serve as Executive Branch Commissioner-Observers to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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President announces appointment of three individuals to serve as Executive Branch Commissioner-Observers to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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Digitize from Box 32 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMED
TE RELEASE
OCTOBI
12, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced the appointment of three individuals to
serve as Executive Branch Commissioner-Observers to the Commission
on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Those individuals represent
the Departments of State, Defense and Commerce.
Monroe Leigh, of Bethesda, Maryland, Legal Adviser,
Department of State.
James G. Poor, of Alexandria, Virginia, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs).
Mansfield Sprague, of the District of Columbia, Counsellor
to the Secretary of Commerce.
The purpose of the Commission is to monitor the acts of the signatories as
they affect compliance with or violation of the articles of the Final Act
of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in particular
regard to the provisions relating to Cooperation in Humanitarian Fields.
The Commission is also authorized to monitor and encourage the
development of programs and activities of the U.S. government and
private organizations with a view toward taking advantage of the provisions
of the Final Act to expand East-West economic cooperation.