The new ambassadors from Ecuador, Guatemala, Canada, France, Sweden and India presented their credentials to President Leonel Fernandez during a ceremony in the Presidential Palace yesterday. Diario Libre reports that the new diplomats are: Ecuadorian lawyer and author Fernando Borja Gallegos; Cesar Augusto Mendez Pinelo from Guatemala; former Canadian lawmaker Alvin Curling; French paleographist Cecile Mouton-Brady de Pozzo Di Borgo; Swedish economist Sten Ask; and Indian Mitra Vasisht, who has served in several diplomatic posts. The ceremony was attended by Vice President Rafael Alburquerque and Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso.