By Baron Henri Estramant.
His Batavian Majesty’s bilateral ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, Mr Henne Schuwer, is due to leave behind his ambassadorship in August 2015 to move on to the prestigious ambassadorial post in Washington D.C. covering the USA.
Ambassador Schuwer has been stationed in Brussels for about 13 years with an interruption for service between 2009 and 2010 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director to the Directorate for North Africa and the Middle East. He took up his ambassadorship in Belgium in 2010; the one in the United States is to be his second ambassadorial post.
Between 2006-2009, he served as Chief of Cabinet for the 11th NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, previous to that position he was deputy permanent representative at the Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the EU between 2002-2006.
Recently TV Brussels dedicated an entire segment to the diplomatic work carried out by Ambassador Schuwer in Belgium (see link below).
Diplomatic relations between The Netherlands and the USA are outstanding. Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima paid an official visit to that republic between 1 and 3 June 2015.
For more information:
Farewell to Dutch Ambassador Schuwer on TV Brussels:
Ambassador Schuwer:
http://belgie.nlambassade.org/organization/de-ambassadeur
