New US ambassador named

DONALD K. Bandler, a career diplomat, is being nominated by US President Clinton to be the next US Ambassador to Cyprus, replacing outgoing Kenneth Brill in Nicosia, the State Department announced yesterday.

Bandler, a Senior Foreign Service Officer, is currently a member of Clinton’s National Security Council, where he is senior director for European Affairs and counsellor to the National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, for the Nato Summit.

Bandler’s prior postings include Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Paris, Director of the Office of Israel and Arab-Israeli Affairs, and Minister-Counsellor for Political and Legal Affairs at the US Embassy in Bonn.

He is fluent in French and German and the recipient of four Superior Honour Awards.

Bandler earned his J.D. from George Washington University Law School, his Masters in Political Science from St John’s College and his B.A. from Kenyon College.

He is married and has three children.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.