Malaysian envoys get their letters
Seven assigned to missions abroad
KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Nazrin Shah has presented instruments of appointment to seven Malaysian envoys assigned to missions abroad.
The ceremony was held at the Istana Negara yesterday.
They are Datuk Kennedy Jawan, the Foreign Ministry deputy secretary-general (multilateral affairs) who will be the Ambassador to Japan; Datuk Mohd Ashri Muda, the Foreign Ministry chief of protocol, who will be the Ambassador to South Korea.
Datuk Azmil Mohd Zabidi, director-general of the South-East Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT), will be the Ambassador to the United States; Ismail Salam, the Foreign Ministry under-secretary for the European Division, will be the High Commissioner to Brunei Darussalam.
Nur Ashikin Mohd Taib, the High Commissioner to Bangladesh, will be the Ambassador to Sweden; Eldeen Husaini Mohd Hashim, the Foreign Ministry under-secretary for the South-East Asian Division, will be Ambassador to Cambodia; and John K. Samuel, the Foreign Ministry under-secretary for the Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Division, will be Ambassador to Finland.
At the same function, three foreign envoys presented their credentials to Sultan Nazrin Shah, who is performing the functions of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong until the end of this year.
They are the Ambassador of Spain Jose Miguel Corvinos Lafuente; Ambassador of Senegal Fatou-Danielle Diagne; and Ambassador of Lithuania Gediminas Varvuolis.