FOREIGN ENVOYS PRESENT CREDENTIALS TO MALAYSIAN KING

KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 (Bernama) -- Three heads of foreign missions Thursday presented their credentials to the King Tuanku Mizan Zainal
Abidin, at National Palace, here.

They are Kazakhstan Ambassador Beibut Atamkulov, Fiji High Commissioner
Suliasi Lutubula and Australian High Commissioner Miles Kupa.

Atamkulov, 46, started his career in 2006 and had served as Kazakhstan
counsellor-minister in Russia and Iran as well as a Consul-General in Frankfurt,
Germany for a year from February 2008.

Lutubula, who has a vast experience in the field of education in Fiji,
started his diplomatic career in October 2008 as the Fiji Acting High
Commissioner to Malaysia for a year before his posting to Indonesia, the
Philippines and Thailand.

Kupa, 54, has vast experience in diplomatic field including a posting in
Egypt and France in the early part of his career.

He also held several posts under the Australian Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade including as the department head from 1991 to 1993 and as the
Deputy First Secretary for the Southeast Asian region from 1993 and 1995.

Meanwhile, Tuanku Mizan also granted a farewell audience to four outgoing
ambassadors and high commissioners whose service in the country end this month.

They are United Kingdom High Commissioner William Boyd McCleary, 61, Kenyan
High Commissioner David Gachoki Njoka, 57, North Korean Ambassador Pak Ryong
Yon, 50, and Irish Ambassador Eugene Hutchinson, 50.

-- BERNAMA