<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>King Felipe VI will receive the Letters of Credence from the new ambassadors of the Dominican Republic, Portugal, Georgia, Bangladesh, Oman, and Kuwait this Wednesday, April 30, at the Royal Palace in Madrid.</strong></h4> According to the Royal Household, the King will receive, in the traditional ceremony held at the Royal Palace in Madrid, the Letters of Credence from the accredited ambassadors of the Dominican Republic, Tony Raful Tejada; Portugal, José Augusto de Jesús Duarte; Georgia, Alexander Chkuaseli; Bangladesh, Masudur Rahman; Oman, Thamir Faiz Khalfan Al Alawi; and Kuwait, Zeiad Alanbaie. Letters of Credence are the document that accredits a foreign ambassador as the representative and highest diplomatic authority of another country in Spain. The ceremony of awarding them to the head of state dates back to the 18th century and has remained virtually unchanged to this day. The new ambassador of the Dominican Republic, Tony Raful Tejada, is a historian, poet, essayist, and member of the Royal Dominican Academy of Language and the Royal Spanish Academy of Language. He has previously served as Minister of Culture, President of the Central American Parliament, and ambassador to Italy, concurrently to Greece, Malta, San Marino, and Croatia. José Augusto de Jesús Duarte returns to the Portuguese Embassy in Madrid, where he previously served in 2005. Awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and the Order of Merit, he has held, among other positions, advisor to the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and ambassador to Mozambique, China, and France. He was appointed Ambassador to Spain by President Rebelo de Sousa on March 14. Alexander Chkuaseli, Georgia's new ambassador, has held various positions in the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2003 and, since 2021, has served as Georgia's Consul General in Barcelona, where he covered the autonomous communities of Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Navarre, Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands. Masudur Rahman, Ambassador of Bangladesh. Masudur joined the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1998. In 2019, he assumed the position of Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Bangladesh in China, and in 2021, he was appointed High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Nigeria. The new ambassador to Oman, Thamir Faiz Khalfan Al Alawi, replaces Omar al Kathiri, who left the Embassy in Madrid last November to head his country's Mission to the United Nations in New York. Finally, Zeiad Alanbaie presented his Letters of Credence as Kuwait's ambassador to Spain this Friday. He has worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2013 and was his country's ambassador to Chile from late 2023 to September 2024, when the Kuwaiti government closed the embassy due to a reorganization of all its missions abroad.
