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New Dutch ambassador presents credentials to President Georgi Purvanov

Thu, Sep 24 2009 16:47 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Newly appointed Dutch ambassador to Bulgaria, Karel van Kesteren, has presented his credentials to President Georgi Purvanov, the Dutch embassy said on September 24 2009.

Karel van Kesteren was born in 1948 and is a graduate of international law from Nijmegen University in the Netherlands. He joined the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs in 1974. Over the next 10 years he held various posts in the United Nations department of the ministry.

From 1984 he was deputy head of mission at the Dutch embassy in Colombia, head of section at the ministry of foreign affairs in The Hague - working on development finance issues - and head of mission at the Dutch embassy in Nicaragua.

His other postings include Spain and Tanzania with three countries of co-accreditation: Madagascar, Mauritius and the Comoros.

Karel van Kesteren is the author of various publications on development financing, the use of aid money for reduction of external debts of developing countries and Dutch-Nicaraguan relations in the 19th century, official development assistance and global public goods, Security Council reform and UN reform in general.

In Bulgaria he replaces Willem van Ee.

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