Appointments (December, 2000) Embassy of Bolivia Nikolai von Goihmann has taken the post of chief of cabinet. Goihmann was formerly CNN producer. Goihmann was born in Colombia but grew up in Argentina. Carmen Henry has left the post of chief of cabinet. Embassy of Colombia Felipe Jaramillo has taken the post of director of trade bureau. Enrique Gomez has left the post of director of trade bureau. Mariana Pacheco has taken the post of deputy director of trade bureau. Olga Reyes has left the post of deputy director of trade bureau. Josefina Martinez has taken the post of advisor of trade bureau. Carlos Acevedo has left the post of advisor of trade bureau. Lizette Martinez Peña has taken the post of Colombian consul in Washington, D.C. Consuelo Sanchez has left the post of Colombian consul in Washington, D.C. Martha I. Bonilla has left the post of minister counselor for economic affairs. Embassy of Denmark Christina M. Lassen has taken the post of first secretary. Mads T. Madsen has taken the post of first secretary. Arne B. Lauritsen has taken the post of consul. Jorn Andersen has left the post of consul. Pernille Bonnesen has taken the post of secretary. Lisbeth Helgesen has left the post of secretary. Emy S. Caiafa has taken the post of secretary. Sarah L. Rothmann has left the post of secretary. Ulrik V. Knudsen left the post of second secretary. Jens Lundager has left the post of counselor. Embassy of Kenya Thomas Amole has taken the post of counselor (political). Embassy of Namibia Harud Urig has taken the post of minister of counselor. Usko Shivute has left the post of minister of counselor. Embassy of Paraguay Leila Rachid de Cowles has taken the post of ambassador. Cowles was previously ambassador of Paraguay to Argentina. Embassy of the Slovak Republic Filip Vagac has taken the post of first secretary (political section). Most recently Vagac was executive director of the Children of Slovakia Foundation, the biggest grant-making foundation for children and young people in Slovakia. Embassy of Syria Jawdat Ali has taken the post of second secretary. Ali was previously chief cabinet of the deputy foreign minister. Bassam Sabagh has left the post of third secretary. Sabagh was third secretary in charge of consular affairs at the embassy since 1995. Jihad Makdissi has taken the post of attaché in charge of congressional affairs. Makdissi was previously attaché of foreign ministry in Damascus, Syria. Mansour Azzam has left the post of third secretary, in charge of congressional affairs. Azzam was third secretary of congressional affairs at the embassy since 1995. Embassy of Turkey Naci Saribas has taken the post of minister-counselor. Huseyin Dirioz has left the post of minister-counselor. Kenan Ipek has taken the post of counselor. Serra Erarslan has left the post of counselor. Mehmet Ali Bayar has taken the post of counselor. Akif Oktay has left the post of counselor. Cihad Erginay has taken the post of first secretary. Inan Ozyilidiz has left the post of first secretary. Gurcan Balik has taken the post of third secretary. Embassy of Zambia Atan Shansonga has taken the post of ambassador. Before his appointment, Ambassador Shansonga was managing director of Mining Industry Support Services Limited (MISSL) in London. MISSL evolved following the privatization of the London-based ZAL Holding Limited, a subsidiary of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited, which provided ancillary services to the mining industry in Zambia. Dunstan W. Kamana has left the post of ambassador.