sentences:  As a career foreign service officer, he held a range of positions, including Executive Director of the Political-Military and Near East and South Asia Bureaus and Vice President of the American Foreign Service Association.In Sierra Leone, Melrose worked with the Sierra Leonian delegation to get them to agree to the Lomé Peace Talks.Melrose was one of the few diplomats to stay with the US embassy in Freetown after most Americans were evacuated from the capital following the capture of U.N. troops by the RUF.