November 26, 2009 15:58 PM

Agong Receives Instruments Of Appointments From Foreign Envoys

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 (Bernama) -- Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin on Thursday received instruments of appointment from four foreign ambassadors and a high commissioner to Malaysia at the Istana Negara, here.

The four foreign ambassadors were Igor Lossovskiy from Ukraine, Andrea Wicke from Austria, Tursunbay Bakir Uulu from the Kyrgyz Republic, and Abdul Samad Samad from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, while the High Commissioner was from Ghana, Daniel Kwasi Abodakpi.

Lassovskiy, 52, is a graduate of the Taras Schevchenko State University in Kiev, Ukraine in the field of Geophysics Engineering.

He began his career at the age of 22 as a senior engineer at the Ukrgeophysics at the Ministry of Geology, Ukraine in 1979 had held the post of Deputy Head of the First Territorial Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January 2007.

Meanwhile, Wicke, 49, has a masters degree in Philosophy and she was the Austrian ambassador to Lithuania before coming to Malaysia.

Uulu, 51, graduated with a Doctor of History degree from the Graduate School of Philosophy, Kiev State University in 1990 and was a former Kyrgyz Member of Parliament.

Abdul Samad, 61, graduated with a bachelors degree from the University of Kabul in 1971. He had once served as the Ambassador of Afghanistan to Tashkent for four years from 2002.

Meanwhile the newly appointed High Commissioner of Ghana to Malaysia, Abodakpi, 59, is the Member of parliament for Keta, Ghana from 1993 until now and was a former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ghana.

-- BERNAMA

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