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ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The envoys designate of different countries presented their credentials to President Gen Pervez Musharraf at the Aiwan-i-Sadr here on Friday.
The envoys designate were Dr Gunter Mulack (Germany), Mishi Masika Mwatsaliu (Kenya), Willem Andreae (the Netherlands), Bela Fazekas (Hungary), David Collins (Canada), Pirjo Irleli Mustonen (Finland) and Regis De Belenet (France).
They arrived at the Aiwan-i-Sadr separately, where a smartly turned out contingent of the Pakistan Army presented them the guard of honour. National anthem of Pakistan and that of the envoys’ respective countries were also played on the occasion.
Later, the envoys separately called on the president and discussed with him matters of mutual interest.
GERMAN AMBASSADOR: New German Ambassador Dr Gunter Mulack, who presented his credential to President Gen Pervez Musharraf, on Friday said promotion of relations of Germany with Pakistan and the Muslim world topped his country’s foreign policy priorities.
Dr Mulack said Pakistan-German relations were important not just on political, economic and cultural grounds, but for reasons of security policy too.
The ambassador, a scholar of law and Islamic studies and a high-ranking German diplomat, served as the country’s first commissioner for the Islamic world until July 2005.
In his previous assignment, Dr Mulack has been travelling intensively throughout South and Central Asia and the Middle East with the aim to promote dialogue among different religious communities and build bridges between civilizations.
He joined the German Foreign Service in 1971 and served in Cairo, Beirut, Kuwait, Amman, Casablanca, Bahrain and worked as director in the department of political affairs, German Federal Foreign Office.
He is familiar with the region and has been visiting Pakistan regularly for the last 15 years.
He said Germany, Pakistan and the Islamic world had a long tradition of good relations from which they had richly benefited.
Dr Mulack, born in Landsberg, can speak German, English, French, Arabic and Spanish.
