President Hu Jintao on Wednesday accepted the credentials from eight new ambassadors to China, including one on behalf of the Republic of Serbia.

 

Miomir Udovicki, former ambassador to China from Serbia-Montenegro, presented the credentials of the Republic of Serbia to Hu Jintao in the Great Hall of the People.

 

Those eight ambassadors include three non-residential ones from the Caribbean countries. They are David Shoul from Antigua and Barbuda, Allan Fields from Barbados, and Julian Robert Hunte, who is the first ambassador to China from St. Lucia.

 

The other ambassadors are Karl Xuereb from the Republic of Malta, Anatoly Afanasievich Tozik from the Republic of Belarus, Papa Khalilou Fall from the Republic of Senegal, and Iacob Timciuc from the Republic of Moldova.

 

(Xinhua News Agency June 29, 2006)