KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 (NNN-BERNAMA) -- Malaysia's king, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, on Thursday received the instruments of appointment from five new foreign ambassadors to Malaysia at the National Palace here.

The five were ambassadors Igor Lossovskiy from Ukraine, Andrea Wicke from Austria, Tursunbay Bakir Uulu from the Kyrgyz Republic, and Abdul Samad Samad from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and the High Commissioner (ambassador) of Ghana, Daniel Kwasi Abodakpi.

Lassovskiy, 52, is a graduate of the Taras Schevchenko State University in Kiev, Ukraine, in the field of Geophysics Engineering. He began his career at the age of 22 as a senior engineer at the Ukrgeophysics at the Ministry of Geology, Ukraine in 1979 had held the post of Deputy Head of the First Territorial Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs since January 2007.

Wicke, 49, has a masters degree in Philosophy and she was the Austrian ambassador to Lithuania before coming to Malaysia.

Uulu, 51, graduated with a Doctor of History degree from the Graduate School of Philosophy at Kiev State University in 1990 and was a former Kyrgyz Member of Parliament.

Abdul Samad, 61, graduated with a bachelors degree from the University of Kabul in 1971. He had once served as the Ambassador of Afghanistan to Tashkent for four years from 2002.

Meanwhile the newly appointed High Commissioner of Ghana to Malaysia, Abodakpi, 59, is the Member of parliament for Keta, Ghana from 1993 until now and was a former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ghana. -- NNN-BERNAMA