Appointments (January, 2000) Embassy of Armenia Arman Kirakossian has taken the post of ambassador. Kirakossian was ambassador to Greece from 1994-1999. Embassy of Belize Nestor Mendez has taken the post of minister-counselor/deputy chief mission. Mendez was counselor of Belize High Commission in London from 1997-1999. Claude B.F. Haylock has left the post of minister-counselor/deputy chief mission. Embassy of Cambodia Roland Eng has taken the post of ambassador. Eng was ambassador to Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. He reopened Cambodian missions in these three countries. Huot Var has left the post of ambassador. Embassy of the Republic of Congo Dongala Solange has taken the post of counselor. Solange was the director of the office of American Affairs at the Congolese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brazzaville Republic of Congo from 1992 to 1999. Amphas-Mampoua Mbow has left the post of second secretary in charge of consular affairs. Embassy of Cyprus Maria Hadjitheodosiou has left the post of press attaché. Hadjitheodosiou was assigned to ministry of foreign affairs in Nicosia. Embassy of Djibouti Guirreh Mahdia has taken the post of second secretary, financial. Sougale Hassan Mohamed has left the post of financial attaché. Embassy of Dominican Republic Jeanne Marion-Landais has taken the post of first secretary. Marion-Landais has a bachelorâs degree in psychology. Eunice Latla has left the post of first secretary. Latla was the research assistant for the ambassador. Embassy of Greece Vassilios Costis has taken the post of political counselor. Ioannis Plotas has taken the post of second secretary and consul. Embassy of Honduras Rina Menjivar has taken the post of counselor, cultural and legislative). Scarleth Ayan has left the post of counselor, legislative) Embassy of Japan Shunji Yanai has taken the post of ambassador. Yanai was Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs before taken his post of ambassador. Embassy of Lebanon Ghady El-Khoury has taken the post of first secretary. El-Khoury was deputy head of mission in Beijing from 1996-1999. Embassy of Liberia Alexander H.N. Wallace III has taken the post of charge dâaffaires. Wallace is serving as charge dâaffaires until a new ambassador takes office. Rachel Diggs has left the post of ambassador. Diggs has served as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary for two years. Gabriel Fernandez has left the post of deputy chief of mission. Fernandez served as deputy chief of mission for the past nine months. Embassy of the Union of Myanmar Sein Ban has taken the post of chief of chancery. Moe Thu Zar has left the post of third secretary. Wai Linn has left the post of chief of chancery. Embassy of Namibia Vasco Samupopu has taken the post of first secretary. Immanuel Iyambo has left the post of first secretary. Kondka Naruafila has taken the post of second secretary. Nelson Eelu has left the post of second secretary. Embassy of Senegal Amadow Fall has taken the post of economic counselor. Fall, who is an economist, used to be technical adviser of the Ministry of Economic and Finance. Embassy of Slovak Republic Igor Pacolák has taken the post of consul. Pacolák is a lawyer. Iveta Hricová has left the post of consul. Hricová is a lawyer and was the vice president of the counselor corps of Washington, D.C. Embassy of Slovenia Igor Kerstein has left the post of minister, deputy chief of mission.