AGONG RECEIVES NEW ENVOYS
Bernama
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Feb 5 2009
Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 (Bernama) — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan
Zainal Abidin received the credentials of four ambassadors and two
high commissioners to Malaysia at Istana Negara today.
The ambassadors are Dr Ashot Kocharian (Armenia), Sigute Jakstonyte
(Lithuania), Jose Manuel Ovalle Bravo(Chile) and Zeljko Bosnjak
(Croatia).
The high commissioners are Rooselelt Laston Gondwe (Malawi) and
Nimisha Jayant Madhvani (Uganda).
Dr Kocharian, 51, was press secretary to the Armenian president
from 2003 to 2005 when he was appointed ambassador to India while
Jakstonyte, 52, was Ambassador at Large of the Global Policy Department
of Lithuani’s Foreign Ministry.
Bravo, 64, was Chile’s Consul-General in New York prior to this
appointment and had also served as ambassador to Poland while Bosnjak,
63, was Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of Analytics and Communication.
Gondwe, 54, had served as Secretary to the Legal Affairs Committee
and Secretary to the Parliamentary Service Commission while Madhvani
was First Secretary-Deputy Ambassador, Commercial and Public Relations
di Washington.