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A Filipino-American who has been working for 22 years at the United States Department in Washington, D.C. may soon be the first US ambassador of Filipino descent.
President George W. Bush has nominated Michele J. Sison, a Filipino-American, to be the next ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to reports from Washington , D.C.
According to the reported, Sison, 44, is currently working as Principal Assistant Secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of South Asian Affairs.
Sison is the daughter of Filipino immigrants Pablo and Victoria Sison, records showed.
If confirmed by the US Congress, Sison will be the first Filipino-American to become US ambassador.
Sison, who currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland, immediately got the support of the Filipino-American community in the entire US. Estimates are that there are three million Filipino-Americans in the US, mostly concentrated in California, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Maryland and Hawaii.
The Filipino leaders have expressed gratitude to President Bush for making Sison’s historic nomination.
"This is another first in bringing more Filipino-American to high positions in the Bush administration," they said.
Last May 13, Bush appointed Eddy Badrina as executive director of the President’s Advisory Commission for Asian-American and Pacific Islanders.
Many other Filipinos are currently working in the White House and State Department in Washington, D.C.
At least three Americans of Filipino descent are generals in the US military service.
Records showed that at least one US congressman and one US senator are of Filipino descent.
One of the three Fil-Am generals, Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, was at center stage recently for his appearance at the US congress investigating alleged abuses of US soldiers on Iraqi prisoners.
Taguba was the author of the prisoner abuse report which has led to the trial of several soldiers.
The 6,000-page report, compled by Taguba, formed the basis for the hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Taguba said in the report he found "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" had been inflicted on Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad between last October and December.
(Jo Chrystie M. Gabot/Phil-Am Press/US News Agency) May 30, 2004, Manila Bulletin
A Filipino-American who has been working for 22 years at the United States Department in Washington, D.C. may soon be the first US ambassador of Filipino descent.
President George W. Bush has nominated Michele J. Sison, a Filipino-American, to be the next ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to reports from Washington , D.C.
According to the reported, Sison, 44, is currently working as Principal Assistant Secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of South Asian Affairs.
Sison is the daughter of Filipino immigrants Pablo and Victoria Sison, records showed.
If confirmed by the US Congress, Sison will be the first Filipino-American to become US ambassador.
Sison, who currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland, immediately got the support of the Filipino-American community in the entire US. Estimates are that there are three million Filipino-Americans in the US, mostly concentrated in California, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Maryland and Hawaii.
The Filipino leaders have expressed gratitude to President Bush for making Sison’s historic nomination.
"This is another first in bringing more Filipino-American to high positions in the Bush administration," they said.
Last May 13, Bush appointed Eddy Badrina as executive director of the President’s Advisory Commission for Asian-American and Pacific Islanders.
Many other Filipinos are currently working in the White House and State Department in Washington, D.C.
At least three Americans of Filipino descent are generals in the US military service.
Records showed that at least one US congressman and one US senator are of Filipino descent.
One of the three Fil-Am generals, Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, was at center stage recently for his appearance at the US congress investigating alleged abuses of US soldiers on Iraqi prisoners.
Taguba was the author of the prisoner abuse report which has led to the trial of several soldiers.
The 6,000-page report, compled by Taguba, formed the basis for the hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Taguba said in the report he found "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" had been inflicted on Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad between last October and December.
(Jo Chrystie M. Gabot/Phil-Am Press/US News Agency) May 30, 2004, Manila Bulletin
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