KUALA LUMPUR: Gloria Corina Peter Tiwet, director of the Sarawak Regional Office in the Foreign Ministry, has created history by becoming the first Sarawak-born woman of Dayak ethnicity to be appointed as a Malaysian envoy.
Gloria, who will be the new Malaysian High Commissioner in Nigeria, is one of the five people who received their instruments of appointment as Malaysian envoys from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Muhammad V, at Istana Negara yesterday.
The others are Mohamad Nizan Mohamad, who will serve in South Africa, Chitra Devi V. Ramiah (Poland), Mohd Haniff Abd Rahman (Egypt) and Zahairi Baharim (Myanmar).
Gloria, among others, was the director of the Asean Main Logistics Secretariat of the Foreign Ministry from 2015 to 2016 and had also served in various capacities in Sweden, Argentina and Chile.
Mohamad Nizan, prior to his appointment as the Malaysian High Commissioner to South Africa, was the undersecretary of the Africa Division in the Foreign Ministry.
Chitra Devi, who will be posted to Poland, was the Malaysian ambassador to Timor-Leste from 2016.
Mohd Haniff, prior to his current appointment, was the Malaysian ambassador to Myanmar from 2014.
Zahairi, the new Malaysian ambassador to Myanmar, was the undersecretary of the Multilateral Economic and Environment Division of the Foreign Ministry since 2016, and also served in South Africa, Qatar, Kuwait and Laos.
Sultan Muhammad V also received the credentials of 10 new foreign envoys to Malaysia.
They are Venetia Sebudandi of Rwanda, Valery Kolesnik (Belarus), Dr Toh Kyung Hwan (South Korea), Akua Sekyiwa Ahenkora (Ghana), George Bitar Ghanem (Lebanon). Andrew Goledzinowski (Australia), Dr Merve Kavakci (Turkey), Bai Tian (China), Muhammed Nafees Zakaria (Pakistan) and Jesper Vahr (Denmark). — Bernama
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