President Hu Jintao
accepted credentials from the new ambassadors of five countries on
Tuesday. Two of them were the first to be appointed by their
countries to represent them in China.
The new ambassadors are: Leonard Nambahu from the Republic of
Namibia, who arrived here on March 22; Emeline Uheina Tuita, the
first ambassador of the Kingdom of Tonga to China, who arrived here
on March 31; Pero Baruncic from Serbia and Montenegro, who arrived
here on July 27; Julio Cesar Freire De Morais, the first ambassador
of the Republic of Cape Verde to China, who arrived here on Aug.
10; and Kasio Mida, non-residential ambassador of the Federated
States of Micronesia, who was appointed in August 2004.
(Xinhua News Agency August 17, 2005)