MINREX: Two Incoming Ambassadors Received

 The High Commissioner of Britain, Rowan James Laxton  and the Russian Ambassador Anatoliy Bashkine  presented advanced copies of their letters of accredition on November 8.

The Minister of External Relations (MINREX), Lejeune Mbella Mbella in separate audiences received the incoming High Commissioner of Britain to Cameroon, Rowan James  Laxton and the incoming Ambassador of Russia to Cameroon, Anatoliy Bashkine at the ministry on November 8, 2017.

The two incoming heads of diplomatic missions presented advanced copies of their letters of accreditation  to the Minister.The new  British High Commissioner, Rowan James Laxton before his appointment to Cameroon, was the Deputy Director, Head of Overseas Security at the Foreign  and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

This is the position he  occupied from 2014 till his new appointment in October 2017. The married man and father of two,  since 1993 when he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has occupied many positions in the British diplomatic and administrative cycles.

He served for one year as the Deputy Head of Mission in Mogadishu, Somalia, Special Political Adviser to the UN Special Representative in Somalia, Head of South Asia Group in the  Foreign and Commonwealth Office, among other fu...