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“NOMINATION DISCHARGED” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Senate section on pages S11739 on Dec. 7, 2000.
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NOMINATION DISCHARGED
Pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement of December 7, 2000, the Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged of the following nomination:
department of state
Richard N. Gardner, of New York, to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Fifty-fifth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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