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William Graham Walker (born 1935) is a veteran
United States Foreign Service diplomat who has notably served as the US Ambassador to
El Salvador and as the head of the
Kosovo Verification Mission.
Political career
Walker has served mostly in Latin America, notably
Bolivia,
Brazil,
El Salvador,
Honduras,
Peru, and on the
Argentina desk at the
US State Department.
From
1985-
1988, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, with responsibility for relations with
Central America and
Panama. By coincidence, he
shares his name with a historical soldier of fortune who in the 19th century attempted to conquer parts of Central America (and was ultimately executed) From 1988-
1992, he served as Ambassador to El Salvador. He was the Vice President of the
National Defense University in
Washington, D.C. between
1994-
1997.
In August 1997, Walker was named as a
Special Representative of the Secretary General and was appointed to head the
United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES). He led a mission consisting of some 800 UN civilian and 2,500 military peacekeepers and administrators. The mission was responsible for overseeing the peaceful reintegration of the largely
Serb-populated region of
Eastern Slavonia into
Croatia following the end of the
Croatian War.
Walker was subsequently appointed to head the
Kosovo Verification Mission, leading some 1400 international and 1500 local staff between October
1998 and June
1999. This was a peacekeeping mission mounted by the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in an unsuccessful attempt to halt the ongoing violence in the
Serbian province of
Kosovo. The mission was discontinued following the end of the
Kosovo War in June 1999.
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