The Senate late Tuesday confirmed the appointment of career foreign service officer David Bruce Shear as the new ambassador to Vietnam, who succeeds Michael Michalak.
Shear served as the deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
Shear served as the deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
During a 30-year career in the foreign service, he has also served in Sapporo, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.
Meanwhile, veteran Asia hand Derek Mitchell has been confirmed as the first US special envoy to Myanmar.
Mitchell had served until now as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs.
The Senate also confirmed Earl Anthony Wayne as the US ambassador to Mexico, replacing Carlos Pascual who resigned in March after Mexican President Felipe Calderon said leaked diplomatic cables written by him damaged bilateral ties.
The Senate was still mulling the nominations of Robert Ford to Syria and Francis Ricciardone to Turkey.
Obama temporarily appointed them to their positions in January during a recess of the Senate where their nominations had been blocked.
Ford's appointment came almost six years after Washington withdrew ambassador Margaret Scobey following the February 2005 assassination in Beirut of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri in a massive car bomb.
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