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New ambassador of Finland presents credentials

Mon, Sep 28 2009 14:54 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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New ambassador of Finland presents credentials

Finnish ambassador Tarja Laitiainen




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Tarja Laitiainen has started her term as the new Finland's ambassador to Bulgaria after presenting her credentials to President Georgi Purvanov on September 24 2009, the Finnish embassy said in a statement.

Laitiainen was born in 1956 in Helsinki. She graduated in political science from University of Helsinki and joined the foreign service in 1981. Laitiainen has worked in New York, Peru, Japan, France, and in the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels in the 1980s and 1990s.

Her diplomatic postings include the positions of roving ambassador to Afghanistan and to Pakistan in 2002/05, and ambassador to Luxembourg in 2005/09.

Tarja Laitiainen is the author of a book on contemporary Afghanistan (published in Finnish). In Bulgaria she replaces Kauko Jämsén, whose term expired in the summer.

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