President appoints new ambassadors

VGP - State President Nguyễn Minh Triết on February 14 appointed 22 new ambassadors to serve overseas missions.

February 15, 2011 7:54 AM GMT+7

Following is the name list of those new ambassadors:

No.	Name	Current position	Resident country
1	Nguyễn Quốc Cường	Deputy FM	Ambassador to the United States of America
2	Phạm Xuân Sơn	Deputy Head of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations	Ambassador to the Russian Federation, cum the Republic of Litvia, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
3	Lê Hoài Trung	Deputy FM	Ambassador-Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the United Nations
4	Lê Mạnh Luân	Deputy Chief of the Central Steering Committee for Corruption Prevention and Control	Ambassador to the Republic of Uzberkistan, cum Republic of Tajikistan
5	Lê Quảng Ba	Director-General of the Northeast Asia Department, under the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations	Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
6	Vũ Bình	Deputy Director-General of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to Arab Republic of Egypt
7	Phạm Sanh Châu	Director-General of the Department for Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, cum the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and the European Commission
8	Nguyễn Hồng Cường	Director –General of ASEAN Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to New Zealand, cum Republic of the Figi Islands, Independent State of Samoa
9	Dương Chí Dũng	Director-General of Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to French Republic, cum the Portuguese Republic, Principality of Monaco, Principality of Andorra, and the Central African Republic
10	Hạ Thị Ngọc Hà	Deputy Director-General of ASEAN Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to Republic of Chile, cum Republic of Peru, and Republic of Ecuador
11	Trần Hải Hậu	Director-General of South East Asia, South Asia and Pacific Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to Republic of Singapore
12	Nguyễn Xuân Lưu	Director-General of Europe Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to Republic of Slovakia
13	Vũ Quang Minh	Director-General of Economic Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland^,Republic of Ireland
14	Ngô Duy Ngọ	Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Việt Nam, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to Republic of Hungary, cum Republic of Croatia, Republic of Albania, and Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina
15	Lê Hồng Phấn	Deputy Director-General of West Asia - Africa Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to the State of Qatar
16	Trần Ngọc Thạch	Director-General, Diplomatic Academy of Việt Nam, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates
17	Tôn Sinh Thành	Director-General, National Border Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
18	Nguyễn Hồng Thao	Vice Chairman of the National Border Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to Malaysia
19	Nguyễn Thiệp	Director-General of Europe Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to Republic of Austria, cum Republic of Slovenia
20	Nguyễn Xuân Thủy	Director-General, Permanent Deputy Head of ASEAN Secretariat 2010, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to Republic of Indonesia, cum Republic of Papua New Guinea, and Democratic Republic of East Timor
21	Bùi Quốc Trung	Deputy Director-General of the Foreign Investment Agency, Ministry of Planning and Investment	Ambassador to State of Kuwait, cum Sultanate of Oman, and State of Bahrain
22	Lê Thanh Tùng	Deputy Director-General of America Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Ambassador to Mexico Federation, cum Honduras Republic, Guatemala Republic, El Salvador and Belize Republic.

By Hải Minh