Appointments (November, 2000) Embassy of Albania Adrian Shima has taken the post of second secretary. Shima was desk officer, regional department MFA in Albania. Embassy of Belarus Alexander Khmurets has taken the post of counselor. Khmurets was assistant to the prime minister of the Republic of Belarus since 1996. Leanid Sennikau has left the post of counselor. Vladimir Poletary has taken the post of third secretary. Poletary was third secretary of consular department of ministry of foreign affairs since 1998. Embassy of Estonia Lauri Lepik has left the post of political secretary. Embassy of the Republic of Hungary Lt. Col. Andras Kovacs has taken the post of assistant defense, military and air attaché. Maj. Istvan Pasztor has left the post of assistant defense, military and air attaché. Embassy of Kyrgyz Republic Vitaly Solodchenko has taken the post of administrator. Talaibek Adylbekov has left the post of administrator. Embassy of Norway Lt. Com. Bjarte Wetteland has taken the post of assistant naval and military attaché. Wetteland latest assignment was as financial coordinator in the project department at the navy’s Materiel Command. Lt. Com. Christian H. Nordanger has left the post of assistant naval and military attaché. Capt. Tom Egil Lilletvedt has taken the post of naval and defense cooperation attaché and assistant defense attaché. Lilletvedt has held various positions in the Materiel Command. Kjell Arne Ingebrigtsen has left the post of air and defense cooperation attaché and assistant defense attaché. Jon A. Oyslebo has taken the post of counselor, head of press and cultural section. Oyslebo was an adviser on international affairs in Stortinget, the Norwegian Parliament. Eivind S. Homme has left the post of counselor, press and culture. Homme was an adviser on international affairs for the Norwegian Parliament. Leif Trana has taken the post of second secretary. Trana joined foreign service in 1996 and was stationed in Riyadh from 1998 to 2000. Berit Enge has left the post of first secretary. Enge joined the Foreign Service in 1991. Enge was second secretary at the Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo in 1994. Erling Wang has taken the post of counselor. Wang has served 21 years in the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Defense. Jan Olsen has left the post of counselor. Embassy of Paraguay Rubén Ramos has taken the post of attaché. Ramos previously was in the permanent mission of Paraguay to the Organization of American States. Liz Coronel has taken the post of first secretary. Coronel was first secretary at the Embassy of Paraguay in Argentina before being posted in Washington, D.C. Leticia Casati has taken the post of first secretary. Casati was second secretary Permanent Mission of Paraguay to the UN in Geneva before being posted in Washington, D.C. Embassy of Sweden Jan Eliasson has taken the post of ambassador. Before assuming this position, Eliasson was deputy secretary of state of Sweden for six years, a key position in formulating and implementing Swedish foreign policy. •Rolf Ekéus has left the post of ambassador.