President Hipolito Mejia received the accreditation letters of several new ambassadors yesterday at the Presidential Palace. These diplomats are Soren Haslund from Denmark, Peter Black from Jamaica, Fatos Tarifa from Albania, Gian Federico Pedoti from Switzerland and Alvaro Jose Sevilla Siero from Nicaragua. Ambassador Haslund is concurrently Ambassador of Denmark to Mexico, Cuba and Haiti and has held high-profile positions representing the European Union in Mexico. In December 2003, he was a signatory on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption list. Ambassador Black is also non-resident ambassador to Haiti and the Jamaican ministry of foreign affair’s under-secretary for bilateral and regional affairs. As such, Black recently represented Caricom at the bicentennial ceremonies on 1 and 2 January in Haiti. Ambassador Fatos Tarifa has previously been the ambassador of the Republic of Albania to the United States and the Netherlands, as well as a professor of sociology and a Fulbright Scholar with studies done in Chapel Hill, North Carolina University. Ambassador Sevilla Siero from Nicaragua was previously Ambassador of Nicaragua to Mexico.