{"id":25643,"date":"2024-03-10T16:35:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T16:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=25643"},"modified":"2024-03-10T16:35:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T16:35:13","slug":"appointment-of-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/appointment-of-ambassadors\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>oday I announce the appointment of highly qualified individuals to lead Australian diplomatic posts in Germany and the Federated States of Micronesia and to lead Australian representation to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our diplomats work for Australia by creating and driving opportunities for closer cooperation, supporting Australians overseas and prosecuting our national interests around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am pleased to announce the following appointments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-germany\">Ms Natasha Smith as Australia&#8217;s next Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-federated-states-micronesia\">Ms Jenny Grant-Curnow as Australia&#8217;s next Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-asia-pacific-economic-cooperation\">Ms Elizabeth Ward as Australia&#8217;s next Ambassador for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank the outgoing Ambassadors for their contributions to advancing Australia&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>oday I announce the appointment of highly qualified individuals to lead Australian diplomatic posts in Germany and the Federated States of Micronesia and to lead Australian representation to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Our diplomats work for Australia by creating and driving opportunities for closer cooperation, supporting Australians overseas and prosecuting our national interests around &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/appointment-of-ambassadors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appointment of Ambassadors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25644,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643\/revisions\/25644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}