King presents credential letters to 10 envoys

Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Muhammad V (centre) with Malaysian heads of mission at Istana Negara

KUALA LUMPUR: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Muhammad V presented credential letters to 10 new Malaysian heads of mission at Istana Negara Tuesday. 

Among the 10 were Zainal Abidin Bakar, who will be the new ambassador to Spain; Syed Hasrin Tengku Hussin, who is the new envoy to the United Arab Emirates; Foreign Ministry undersecretary of the Americas division Datuk Rustam Yahaya, who will be posted to Iran; and Cheong Loon Lai, who had served as the high commissioner to Ghana, who will head to Hungary.