Comings and Goings

Summer is a time of change, and turnover, in the diplomatic community. So before we welcome a new crop of envoys to town, we bid a fond farewell to the some of the ambassadors who will be leaving us:

• Chan Heng Chee of Singapore (appointed to Washington in July 1996; also see cover profile in the July 2012 issue of The Washington Diplomat)

• Fatou Danielle Diagne of Senegal (March 2010)

• Carlos Gianelli Derois of Uruguay (July 2005)

• Jorge Ramon Hernandez-Alcerro of Honduras (June 2010)

• Renée Jones-Bos of the Netherlands (August 2008)

• Mitar Kujundzic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (February 2009)

• Audrey Patrice Marks of Jamaica (May 2010)

• Andrejs Pildegovics of Latvia (July 2007)

• Jean-Paul Senninger of Luxembourg (August 2008)

• Sameh Shoukry of Egypt (September 2008)

• Gabriel Silva of Colombia (in October 2010)

• Representative Qubad Talabani of the Kurdistan Regional Government (October 2006)