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Abdul Malik Abdullah Naela Chohan
PAKISTAN HIGH COMMISSIONER TO AUSTRALIA
Motion by the Hon. SHAOQUETT
MOSELMANE agreed to:
(1)
That this House notes that:
(a) Pakistan's High Commissioner to Australia His
Excellency Abdul Malik Abdullah recently departed following his completion of a
three-year tenure thus paving the way for his replacement by the incoming High
Commissioner Her Excellency Mrs Naela Chohan;
(b) Mr Abdullah returns to
Pakistan after completing a remarkable set of achievements in Australia,
including boosting bilateral trade between Pakistan and Australia, overseeing an
improvement to the consular and mission services afforded to Australians of
Pakistani heritage;
(c) on the trade front, His Excellency Abdul Malik
Abdullah, with the support of former Consul General Azam Mohammed and the
current Consul General Mr Uqaili, was able to secure the importation of
Pakistani mangoes to Australia;
(d) Mr Abdullah was able to unite every
community organisation of Pakistani-Australians from all States and Territories
into one umbrella organisation, the Pakistan-Australia Council and His
Excellency's greatest achievement, perhaps, was the construction of a new
Pakistani High Commission building and construction is expected to be completed
by September 2014, 55 years after the Australian Government leased the land to
the Pakistani High Commission; and
(e) His Excellency successfully
conducted the participation of the Pakistani delegation to the Commonwealth
Heads of Government meeting in 2011 while facilitating the many Australian
visitations by high-ranking officials and political leaders.
(2) That
this House notes:
(a) the incoming High Commissioner of Pakistan to Australia
Her Excellency Naela Chohan is at present the Additional Secretary at the
Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
(b) Naela Chohan holds a master's
degree in international relations from Quaid-e-Azam University, and a PhD
session certificate in international relations from Centre d'Etudes
Diplomatiques et Stratégiques in Paris and she has also received training at
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the École du Louvre in Paris and
Her Excellency has also undertaken the Executive Development Program [EDP] from
the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and
(c) until
late 2013, Her Excellency has served as Ambassador of Pakistan to Argentina,
Uruguay, Peru and Ecuador and her diplomatic assignments have also included the
High Commission of Pakistan in Ottawa, the Pakistan delegation to United Nations
General Assembly 41st Session, 1987, and 42nd Session, 1988, and the embassies
of Pakistan in Tehran, from 1989 to 1993 and Kuala Lumpur from 1997 to 2001. In
addition to her service as a career diplomat, Her Excellency has served on
various government and private sector boards.
(3) That this House notes
His Excellency Abdul Malik Abdullah's exceptional service to the Pakistani
community which he undertook with great diligence and wishes him well in his
future.
(4) That this House welcomes the appointment of Her Excellency
Naela Chohan and wishes her every success during her tenure in
Australia.
