Bangladesh changes ambassadors in three countries

The Bangladesh ambassador in Portugal, Imtiaz Ahmed, has been transferred to Germany while the ambassador in Berlin, Muhammad Ali Sorcar, has been posted to Egypt in the latest change of diplomatic postings.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 27 Sept 2016, 09:40 AM
Updated : 27 Sept 2016, 11:43 AM

Md Ruhul Alam Siddique, a director general at the foreign ministry, will take up his first ambassadorial posting to replace Ahmed in Portugal, according to statements issued on Tuesday.

However, the ministry did not say where the current ambassador in Egypt, Md Wahidur Rahman, would be posted.

Ahmed, the new ambassador in Germany, is a career diplomat belonging to the 1984 batch of BCS foreign affairs.

Apart from Portugal, Ahmed earlier served as the envoy in Sweden, Nepal, and Bhutan. He also served at Bangladesh missions in Rome, Cairo, Washington DC and Kuala Lumpur in various capacities.

A geology graduate of Dhaka University, Ahmed has a diploma in French Language from Audio-visual Centre for Modern Language (CAVILAM), Vichy, France and DESS Degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from International Institute for Public Administration (IIAP), Paris, France.

A doctor by training, Sorcar, who has been appointed the new envoy in Cairo, belongs to the 1986 BCS foreign affairs.

He has served as ambassador to the Netherlands, Deputy Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN in New York and the Bangladesh Embassy in Brussels.

The foreign ministry statement describes him as a “specialist in the multilateral arena of diplomacy, especially on UN System”.

He qualified in MBBS from Mymensingh Medical College and later did his masters from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in the US.

The new ambassador to Portugal, Siddique belongs to the 11th batch of BCS foreign affairs.

A public administration graduate from Dhaka University, Siddique is currently director general, East Asia and the Pacific, at the foreign ministry.

He has earlier served as minister in the Bangladesh High Commission, New Delhi, before his assignment as Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi. He has also served in the Bangladesh Embassy in Berlin and the High Commission in Singapore in different capacities.