KUALA LUMPUR: Four new foreign envoys to Malaysia yesterday presented their credentials to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah at Istana Negara here.
They were Carlos Dominguez Diaz from Spain, Daniel Dargent (Belgium), Benjamin Clement Eghan (Ghana) and Kang Chol of North Korea.
Tuanku Abdul Halim and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Hajah Haminah also granted an audience to the four envoys.
Present were Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin and Foreign Affairs Ministry secretary-general Datuk Othman Hashim.
Diaz, 47, is a Sevilla University law graduate and the former Spanish secretary-general of fisheries at the Agriculture, Food and Environment Ministry.
Dargent, 56, holds an international relations and public administration degree, and was the Belgian Ambassador to Gabon (2004-2007) and Angola (2007-2011).
Eghan, 66, was former Ghanaian Chief Minister at the Transport and Communications Ministry and had served as the secretary to the cabinet from 2009 to last year.
Having joined the North Korean Foreign Service since 1976, Kang, 61, was the first secretary at the North Korean Embassy in Somalia and the director-general of administration at the North Korean Foreign Ministry.
At the ceremony, Tuanku Abdul Halim also presented the instruments of appointment to four Malaysian envoys.
They are Datuk Lim Kim Eng, who will be commissioned to New Zealand, Rahimi Harun (Brazil), Datuk Saiful Azam Martinus Abdullah (Croatia) and Datuk Roslan Abdul Rahman (Azerbaijan). Bernama