Singapore Government Press Release
Media Division, Ministry of Information & The Arts, #36-00, PSA Building, 460 Alexandra Road, Singapore 119963, Tel: 3757794/5
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS PRESS STATEMENT
The Ambassador of the Republic of Italy, Mr Giuseppe Marchini Camia, and the Ambassador of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Mr Addis-Alem Balema, presented their Credentials to President Ong Teng Cheong at the Command House today.
Ambassador Marchini Camia succeeds Dr Enrico Augelli, who passed away in April 1996 after a long illness. Ambassador Balema, who is resident in Beijing, succeeds Mr Desta Erifo Anore. The curricula vitae of Ambassador Marchini Camia and Ambassador Balema are enclosed.
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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
8 OCTOBER 1996
GIUSEPPE MARCHINI CAMIA
AMBASSADOR
REPUBLIC OF ITALY
BORN: 7 December 1939, Parma
AGE: 56
MARITAL Married
STATUS: Has four children
EDUCATION: University degree in Political Science, Rome University,
1964
CAREER: Mar 1969 Joined the Diplomatic Service
Aug 1969 Cultural Affairs Department Secretariat,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nov 1972 Second Secretary, Permanent Representation
to the EEC in Brussels, Belgium
Jul 1974 First Secretary, Permanent Representation
to EEC in Brussels, Belgium
Sep 1976 First Secretary (Commercial), Embassy of
Italy in Moscow, USSR
Oct 1979 European Community Desk (External
Relations), Economic Affairs Department,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Sep 1984 Counsellor, Permanent Representation to
the EEC in Brussels, Belgium
Nov 1985 First Counsellor, Permanent Representation
to the EEC in Brussels, Belgium
CAREER: Mar 1989 Consul-General of Italy in Basel,
(Cont'd) Switzerland
Sep 1992-96 Head, European Union Desk (External
Relations), Economic Affairs Department,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Oct 1996 Ambassador to Singapore
AWARDS/ Distinction of Knight in the Order of Merit of the
DECORATIONS: Italian Republic, 1982
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September 1996
ADDIS-ALEM BALEMA
AMBASSADOR TO SINGAPORE
FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA
BORN: 14 August 1957, Makelle, Ethiopia
AGE: 39
MARITAL Married
STATUS: Has three children
EDUCATION: Master of Arts in International Relations, The
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1994
CAREER: 1976 Joined the Tigray People's Liberation
Front (TPLF)
1976-1985 Public Administrator in the liberated
areas of the TPLF
1986-1988 Head of the Political and Information
Department, Foreign Relations Bureau of
the TPLF
1989 Elected to the Leadership at the Third
Congress of the TPLF
1985-1991 Participated actively in various
Diplomatic Missions and Tours of the TPLF
and later the Ethiopian People's
Revolutionary Democratic Front
1989-1991 Head of the Political and Information
Department, Foreign Relations Bureau of
the EPRDF
Jun 1991- Special Political Advisor to the Minister
Jan 1992 of Foreign Affairs
Jan 1992 Ambassador to the Republic of Italy
CAREER: Jan 1992 Permanent Representative to the United
(Cont'd) Nations' Organizations in Rome: FAO, IFAD
and WFP
1993 Special envoy of the President of Ethiopia
to Somali Mediation
23 Apr 96 Ambassador to Beijing
8 Oct 1996 Ambassador to Singapore
LANGUAGE: Amharic, Tigrigna, English
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