Schenectady,
N.Y. (April 5, 2001) – Retired career diplomat Harry Cahill, who oversaw
refugee operations in Bosnia, will speak on “The Challenge of the Balkans”
on Wednesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial at Union College.
The talk
is free and open to the public.
Cahill's
career spans 33 years as a foreign service officer in the U.S. Department of
State, the final 13 years with the rank of minister-counselor. During
retirement, he has been recalled to duty at the State Department for several
months each year. He also has taken on other non-State assignments.
Last year,
he was advisor to the U.S. Army on Bosnia/Kosovo operations, participating in
eight military exercises. He was an elections supervisor for three Bosnian
elections in Tuzla, Banja Luka and Zagreb. He also recently served as program
officer for Latin American migration and refugee issues.
During his
career with the Department of State he served as minister-counselor of the U.S.
Mission to the U.N., responsible for economic and human rights issues at the
U.N. He was also consul general to Bombay, India, promoting American political,
economic and cultural interests in one of the largest and busiest U.S.
diplomatic posts.
He is the
author of The China Trade and U.S. Tariffs (Praeger, 1973).
The talk
is sponsored by the Union Scholars Program and the Minerva Committee.