March
2006
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APPOINTMENTS
 
4
Vol. 2 No.2  
 
 
  • Mr Yuriy Malko has been appointed as the new Ambassador of Ukraine to Romania. 59 years old, he has degrees in Romanic and German Philology and in Economics. He is also an interpreter and lecturer in French and in political economy. After occupying various positions in the Soviet and Ukrainian Ministries of Foreign Affairs respectively, Malko was appointed as
    Minister-counsellor of the Embassy of Ukraine to Belgium, ambassador to Morocco and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, with residence in Rabat. He is fluent in French and English.

  • Mr Miroslav Luci has been appointed as Ambassador of Slovenia to Romania, with residence in Belgrade. A qualified medical doctor, in 1994 he was elected as Mayor of Ptuj, Slovenia, a function he held until 2002. He was then appointed as state secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office for liaising between the Government and Parliament. His hobbies include sports, hunting and growing wine.

  • Mr Marius Oprea has been appointed as president of the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism in Romania (IICCR). 40 years-old, historian Oprea has a PhD in the Romanian Communist secret police, the Securitate. He has previously been appointed as counsellor on security issues in the office of the Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu.

  • Mr Bogdan Mazuru, 44, has been appointed as Ambassador of Romania to the Federal Republic of Germany. Mr Mazuru has been Romania’s Ambassador to NATO in Brussels since June 2001, and his previous postings also include work as charge d’affaires at the Embassy of Romania in Washington DC. Mr Mazuru speaks English, French and German.

  • Mr Septimiu Stoica, 49, a lawyer by training, has been elected as the new president of the Bucharest Stock Exchange. Mr Stoica was previously the president of the Bucharest Commodities Exchange and well as president of Rasdaq, Romania’s OTC market.

  • Mr Badamdordj Batkhishing has been appointed Ambassador of Mongolia to Romania, residing in Sofia.

  • Mr Mahmood Hasan has been appointed Ambassador of the Popular Republic of Bangladesh to Romania, residing in Paris.