The Senate confirmed career foreign service officer Robert Wood by voice vote yesterday as the United States’ Representative to the Conference on Disarmament nearly seven months after he was first nominated to the position. Wood has been serving as the top U.S. official at the CD in an acting capacity, and his confirmation makes him the permanent representative, with the rank of ambassador. Wood had been serving in a dual capacity as the Deputy Chief of Mission to the U.S. Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna, Austria. He was the State Department’s deputy spokesman from 2008 to 2010. The Senate still has not acted to confirm nine Department of Energy nominees and two key State Department arms control officials.
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