Diplomacy: accreditation of new ambassadors from Poland – Thailand – Greece – Kosovo

On Friday 5 May, at a lunch held at the Hotel Hermitage, Isabelle Berro-Amadeï, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, received H.E. Mr Jan Emeryk Rosciszewski, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland; H.E. Mr Tana Weskosith, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Thailand; H.E. Mr Dimitrios Zevelakis, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Hellenic Republic; and H.E. Mr Mehdi Halimi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kosovo.

The diplomats presented their credentials to H.S.H. the Sovereign Prince during the morning.

A graduate of the Faculty of Humanities at the Catholic University of Lublin and the Paris Institute of Political Studies, H.E. Mr Jan Emeryk Rosciszewski held management posts in Polish and foreign financial institutions for 30 years. He was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Directors at PKO Bank Polski in 2016, and went on to become President five years later.

H.E. Mr Tana Weskosith studied law at Chulalongkorn University and then in the United States, before joining the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992. In 2016, he was appointed Thailand's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Italy before being given the role of Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs three years later. He became Thailand's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France in February 2022.

H.E. Mr Dimitrios Zevelakis graduated from the University of Athens School of Law and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Academy in 1985, going on to undertake a number of diplomatic missions in North America (New York, Chicago). Having served as Greece's Consul General in Los Angeles and then São Paulo, he was subsequently appointed as Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to Argentina and Bolivia from 2016 to 2020, and then as Ambassador to France in 2022.

H.E. Mr Mehdi Halimi studied French language and literature in Pristina before completing his doctorate at Inalco-Sorbonne in Paris in 2001. In 2007, he secured a consular post at the French Embassy in Kosovo, while continuing to work as a lecturer at the University of Pristina. From 2012 to 2021, he served as a sworn expert in Albanian and Serbo-Croatian at the Douai Court of Appeal in France. He became Kosovo's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France in 2022.