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)
