Which ambassadors are going where

Which ambassadors are going where

The official list of diplomatic appointments and transfers as approved by the Hoss Cabinet on Wednesday January 13/1999 (Daily Star Friday.)

*Name*	*From*	To	Notes
*Samir Khoury*	*administration*	*Rome*
*Mahmoud Hammoud*	*London*	*administration*	appointed director of political affairs until he retires on June 30, 1999
*Suleiman Younes*	*Prague*	*administration*
*Ghazi Shidiaq*	*Brasilia*	*administration*
*Fakhry Saghieh*	*Mexico City*	*Tunis*	extended stay abroad
*Nizar Farhat*	*Libreville*	*administration*
*Sami Qronfol*	*Unesco*	*administration*
*Salim Tadmuri*	*Moscow*	*New York*	extended stay abroad
*Samir Hobeika*	*Vienna*	*Bern*
*Fouad Aoun*	*Stockholm*	*administration*
*Michel Abu Khater*	*administration*	*Sofia*
*Mohammed Issa*	*Kuwait*	*administration*
*Walid Nasr*	*administration*	*Geneva*
*Jaafar Mouawi*	*Ankara*	*Tokyo*
*Antoine Jumaa*	*Dakar*	*Unesco*
*Samir Shamma*	*Tokyo*	*administration*
*Samir Mubarak*	*New York*	*Madrid*
*Abdel-Latif Mamlouk*	*Jakarta*	*administration*
*Tony Breidi*	*Marseilles*	*Dakar*
*Gilbert Nasr*	*Lagos*	*Brasilia*
*Charbel Aoun*	*Sao Paulo*	*Accra*
*Raymond Baaklini*	*Seoul*	*Paris*
*Hussein Musawi*	*Sofia*	*Abu Dhabi*
*Michel Bitar*	*New Delhi*	*Canberra*
*Jihad Murtada*	*Brussels*	*London*
*William Habib*	*Amman*	*Vienna*
*Nizar Shamas*	*Asuncion*	*Muscat*
*Michel Jahshan*	*Bogota*	*New Delhi*
*Mounir Talhouq*	*Tehran*	*Stockholm*
*Naji Abi Assi*	*Paris*	*administration*	appointed director of political affairs after Mahmoud Hammoud’s retirement
*Zeidan Saghir*	*Havana*	*Beijing*
*George Siam*	*Abu Dhabi*	*Ankara*
*Elysee Alam*	*administration*	*Johannesburg*
*Melhem Mesto*	*administration*	*Bonn*	to begin after ambassador Salim Thabet’s retirement on March 1, 1999
*Adib Alameddine*	*Muscat*	*Amman*
*Zouheir Mzar*	*Manama*	*Prague*
*Mustafa Mustafa*	*Tripoli*	*Rabat*
*Farid Abboud*	*administration*	*Washington*
*Fawzi Fawwaz*	*administration*	*Brussels*
*Adnan Mansour*	*administration*	*Tehran*
*Mohammed Zeeb*	*Freetown*	*Belgrade*
*Michel Khoury*	*administration*	*The Hague*
*Fouad Khoury Ghanem*	*Montevideo*	*administration*
*Samira Daher*	*administration*	*Nicosia*
*Masoud Maalouf*	*Santiago*	*administration*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Mounir Khreish*	*Accra*	*Bogota*
*Mohammed Nasrat Asaad*	*Belgrade*	*Seoul*
*Micheline Abi Samra*	*administration*	*Montevideo*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Hikmat Awwad*	*administration*	*Conakry*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Naseer Baz*	*Conakry*	*Khartoum*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Shehadeh Moallem*	*Kinshasa*	*Kinshasa*	promoted from charge d’affaires to ambassador
*Mohammed Hajjar*	*Islamabad*	*Manama*
*Abdel-Majid Qasir*	*Algiers*	*Bucharest*
*Issam Mustafa*	*Tunis*	*Freetown*	counselor under the title of ambassador; extended stay abroad
*Nouhad Mahmoud*	*administration*	*Mexico City*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Mrad Jammal*	*administration*	*Santiago*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Gharami Ayoub*	*administration*	*Libreville*
*Nazih Ashour*	*The Hague*	*Jakarta*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Suleiman Rasi*	*administration*	*Havana*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Afif Ayoub*	*administration*	*Doha*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Tony Badawi*	*administration*	*Yerevan*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Khaled Kilani*	*administration*	*Kuwait*
*Khaled Salman*	*administration*	*Lagos*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Bassam Naamani*	*London*	*Islamabad*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Ahmad Abdullah*	*Istanbul*	*Algiers*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Mustafa Hamdan*	*Rio de Janeiro*	*Tripoli*	counselor under the title of ambassador
*Butros Asaker*	*counselor in Rome*	*Moscow*
*Hussein Rammal*	*counselor in Paris*	*counselor in Freetown*

Among the ambassadors to remain in their positions are:

*Jawdat Noureddine*	*Budapest*
*Zouheir Hamdan*	*Riyadh*
*Hisham Dimashqieh*	*Cairo*
*Mohammed Daher*	*Abidjan*
*Assem Jaber*	*Ottawa*

Lebanese embassies ordered closed in Asuncion, Alma Ata and Bangkok.