May 14, 2007

The General Assembly of the Ottawa Diplomatic Association - ODA - elected its new Executive Committee Ottawa, May 8, 2007

We are pleased to inform that the Ottawa Diplomatic Association - ODA - held its IX General Assembly on Tuesday, May 8, 2007, from 6:15 to 8:25 p.m., at the British High Commission, 80 Elgin Street, Ottawa.

The General Assembly re-elected Ambassador of Romania, H.E. Elena Stefoi, as President and elected a new Executive Committee among its members. The new Executive Committee is detailed below.

The IX General Assembly’s also unanimously decided to award Mr. Malcolm McKechnie, Department of Foreign Affairs’ Chief of Protocol, Honorary Membership of the ODA, in recognition of his friendly and efficient cooperation with the Association.

The new membership’s fee up to May 8, 2007, was fixed as 60 Dollars, as unique membership’s symbolic contribution to the Association for the whole mission of each diplomat registered.

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 New Executive Committee :

 Presidet : Elena Stefoi, Ambassador of Romania

 First Vice-president : Ahmed H. Al-Mitwalli, Cultural Counselor, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia

 Second Vice-president : Carlos Obrador-Garrido Cuesta, First Secretary, Embassy of Mexico

 Secretary General : Oscar Felipe Izquierdo Arboleda, First Secretary, Embassy of Ecuador

 Deputy Secretary General : Luis Kalaff Sanchez, Minister Counselor, Embassy of the Dominican Republic

 Treasurer : Maha Hamdy, First Secretary, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt

 Deputy Treasurer : Sadik Mohamed Ben Sadik, First Counselor, Libyan Embassy

 Member : : Andrew Alexander O’Henley, Second Secretary, British High Commission

 Member : : Samy Araya Rojas, Second Secretary, Embassy of Costa Rica

 Member : : Member : Eugenio Matos Gomez, Embassy of the Dominican Republic

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