MFA Press Statement: Presentation of Credentials, 24 October 2018

  The following foreign Heads of Mission presented their credentials to President  Halimah Yacob in separate ceremonies at the Istana today:

(a)             The Ambassador of Japan

  His Excellency Jun Yamazaki

(b)           The Ambassador of the Republic of Guinea

 His Excellency Senkoun Sylla

  Their bio summaries are attached.    

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

SINGAPORE 

24 OCTOBER 2018

JUN YAMAZAKI

AMBASSADOR TO SINGAPORE

JAPAN

Ambassador Jun Yamazaki is a career diplomat.  Prior to his appointment as Ambassador of Japan to Singapore, he was Ambassador to Sweden.

He was born in UK in 1956.  Receiving his BA in International Relations from Tokyo University, he entered the Foreign Ministry of Japan in 1980.

Within the Foreign Ministry, Mr. Yamazaki was appointed Director, Second Southeast Asia Division, Asian Affairs Bureau, Deputy DG both for Global Issues and Consular Affairs, and Chief of Protocol.

He served overseas at Embassy in Indonesia.  He also served in various capacities at the UN in New York, first as a member of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, followed by a secondment to the UN Secretariat as Assistant Secretary-General, Controller, and later as Ambassador at the Permanent Mission of Japan. 

He is married with two sons.  

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October 2018

SENKOUN SYLLA

AMBASSADOR TO SINGAPORE

REPUBLIC OF GUINEA

Mr Senkoun Sylla is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Guinea to Japan, with a diplomatic portfolio extended to the Republic of Singapore, the Republic of Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Fiji, and the Republic of Philippines.

Mr Sylla graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in 1985 from a university in Conakry, Guinea. In 1982, he obtained a Diploma in Economics and Accounting from the Faculty of Administrative and Legal Sciences, Guinea.

Mr Sylla has also completed several training courses including Graduate Studies in Negotiation, Higher School of Commerce, Administration and Industry (ESACI), Charenton, France in 1988; and Preparation for Master in Economic and Social Administration (AES), University of Paris 7, Paris, France in 1990 to name a few.

Since joining the Foreign Service in 1992, Mr Sylla served as the Counsellor for Political, Economic and Cultural Affairs in the Guinea Embassy in Beijing, China from 2003 to 2012, and as Charge d’Affaires and concurrently Vice-President of the Deputy Chiefs of Mission Group in Beijing, China from 2006 to 2007. He is Guinea’s Ambassador to Japan from May 2013, the Philippines from June 2014, Australia from March 2015, New Zealand and Fiji from April 2016, the Republic of Korea from November 2016 and Singapore from October 2018.

At the Ministry headquarters, Mr Sylla held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guinea, including the last as Acting Director of the Africa-Asia and Middle East Division.

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October 2018

Photo Credit: Ministry of Communications and Information 

Photo Credit: Ministry of Communications and Information