{"id":56476,"date":"2015-10-22T11:27:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T09:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2015\/10\/mfa-press-statement-presentation-of-credentials-ceremony-22-october-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-10-22T11:27:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T09:27:44","slug":"mfa-press-statement-presentation-of-credentials-ceremony-22-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mfa-press-statement-presentation-of-credentials-ceremony-22-october-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA Press Statement: Presentation of Credentials Ceremony, 22 October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n                                                    SINGAPORE, Singapore, October 22, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The following foreign Ambassador presented its credentials to President Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam in ceremony at the Istana today:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The Ambassador of the People\u2019s Democratic Republic of Algeria<br \/>\nHis Excellency Abdelkader Aziria<\/p>\n<p>HE ABDELKADER AZIRIA<br \/>\nAMBASSADOR TO THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE<br \/>\nPEOPLE\u2019S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ALGERIA<\/p>\n<p>BORN:<br \/>\n26 August 1956<\/p>\n<p>AGE:<br \/>\n59<\/p>\n<p>MARITAL STATUS:<br \/>\nMarried with 4 children.<\/p>\n<p>CAREER:<\/p>\n<p>1976 \u2013 1980<br \/>\nDiplomatic Section, National School of Administration<\/p>\n<p>1980 \u2013 1982<br \/>\nOfficer, National Service, People&#8217;s National Army<\/p>\n<p>1982 \u2013 1983<br \/>\nOfficer, Secretariat General<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n1983 \u2013 1984<br \/>\nOfficer, Southern Africa, General Directorate Africa.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n1984 \u2013 1987<br \/>\nFirst Secretary, Embassy of Algeria in Luanda, Angola<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n1987 \u2013 1992<br \/>\nHead of Office, General Directorate Africa.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n1992 \u2013 1996<br \/>\nDeputy Permanent Representative of Algeria to United Nations Office in Vienna (Austria) in charge of International Organizations (UNO-UNIDO-IAEA)<\/p>\n<p>1997 \u2013 2001<br \/>\nDeputy Director for Eastern and Southern African Countries, General Directorate Africa.<\/p>\n<p>2001 \u2013 2004<br \/>\nCounsellor of the Minister Delegate in charge of Maghreban and African Affairs<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n2004 \u2013 2009<br \/>\nAmbassador of Algeria to Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi with residence in Kampala<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n2009 \u2013 2014<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n6 November 2014<br \/>\n22 October 2015<\/p>\n<p>Counsellor of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of African Union and Regional Organizations matters<\/p>\n<p>Designated as Ambassador of Algeria to Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam<br \/>\n\u00a0Ambassador to Singapore<\/p>\n<p>HOBBIES:<\/p>\n<p>Reading, internet, television and sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE, Singapore, October 22, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; The following foreign Ambassador presented its credentials to President Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam in ceremony at the Istana today: The Ambassador of the People\u2019s Democratic Republic of Algeria His Excellency Abdelkader Aziria HE ABDELKADER AZIRIA AMBASSADOR TO THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE PEOPLE\u2019S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-56476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}