Press Release (97)99 1 Sept. 1997

New NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization announces the appointment of Ambassador Klaus-Peter Klaiber, to the position of Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, as of 1 September 1997. Ambassador Klaiber was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and entered the German Foreign Service in 1968. During his career, he has served at the German Embassies in Kinshasa, Kenya, Washington and London. At the German Foreign Ministry in Bonn he has dealt with European Political Co-operation. He has also been Deputy Head of the Private Office of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Genscher, Deputy Political Director, and prior to coming to NATO, Head of Policy Planning. Ambassador Klaiber succeeds Ambassador Gebhardt von Moltke who has been appointed Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Kingdom.