via CAAI News Media
The Government today, 3 June, approved the appointment of two new ambassadors. They are Sweden's new Ambassador to North Korea, Barbro Elm, and Sweden's new Ambassador to Cambodia, Anne Höglund.
Barbro Elm has been appointed Ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). She is currently Senior Adviser and Press Officer at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Press, Information and Communication Department. Barbro Elm has served at the embassies in Bratislava, Madrid and Havanna, among others. She has also worked at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Americas Department and with UN issues. During a one-year exchange appointment at the Norwegian foreign ministry in Oslo she worked with security policy issues. Barbro Elm has also previously been head of the European Correspondent section at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Anne Höglund has been appointed Ambassador to Cambodia. She has been Deputy Head of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Department for Asia and the Pacific Region for four years. Before that she worked for three years in the same department as head of the group for South Asia. Anne Höglund has also served at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Africa and European Union Departments as well as at the office of the Director-General for Political Affairs. At the beginning of the1990s she was Vice Consul at the Swedish Consulate-General in Barcelona.
The ambassadors will take up their posts in autumn 2010.
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