Marcos appoints ambassadors to 5 countries

PRESIDENT Marcos Jr. made several appointments in various government agencies, government-owned and/or controlled corporations and diplomatic postings last week, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said yesterday.

The PCO took to Facebook to announce the appointments as of June 20 which include Nina Cainglet, ambassador to Bangladesh with concurrent jurisdiction over Sri Lanka and Maldives; Adrian Bernie Candolada, ambassador to Columbia with concurrent jurisdiction over Ecuador and Venezuela; Antonio Morales, ambassador to Australia with concurrent jurisdiction over Nauru, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu; Mardomel Celo Melicor, ambassador to Qatar; and Domingo Nolasco, ambassador to Finland.

Cainglet formerly served as consul general of the Philippine Embassy in Canberra, Australia and former Philippine Deputy Chief of Mission and Deputy Permanent Representative to Rome-based United Nations agencies.

Candolada was a former consul general of the Philippine Embassy in Rome who had previously served as acting assistant secretary of the Office of European Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affair (DFA) and a member of the DFA’s Legislative Liaison Unit.

Morales had served as DFA undersecretary foraAdministration and was a former Philippine ambassador to Singapore. He had diplomatic postings in Ankara, Rome, Kuala Lumpur, San Francisco, Milan, Beijing and Hong Kong.

Melicor, a former DFA Assistant Secretary for Middle East and Africa, had served as Charge d’Affaires of the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli and Deputy Chief of Mission and Consul General of the Philippine Embassy in Estonia.

Nolasco had served as Philippine Ambassador to Italy and non-resident Ambassador to Malta, San Marino and Albania. He had also served as permanent representative to Rome-based UN Agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Programme, and International Fund for Agricultural Development, and had diplomatic postings in Tokyo and in Washington.

He also previously served as DFA assistant secretary for the Fiscal Management; Director of the DFA’s Office of Asian and Pacific Affairs; and special assistant to the Office of the Undersecretary for Administration at the