Above: the ceremony at the National Palace (Photo: CIG)
By the Caribbean Journal staff
Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez received the credentials Friday of two new ambassadors to the country from Colombia and Guinea-Bissau in a ceremony at the National Palace.
Jabib Char Abdala is the newest ambassador of Colombia, while Abel Coelho de Mendonca is Guinea-Bissau’s new envoy.
Fernandez was accompanied at the ceremony by Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso and Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Trullols.
Both are longtime diplomats; Coelho de Mendonca was formerly the country’s consul general in Gambia, and its ambassador to Cuba.
Char has been the chairman of the board of several companies in Colombia.
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