Parliament approves Sareer as Maldives ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Sareer is serving as Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1 October.
Parliament on Tuesday approved the appointment of former Foreign Secretary Ahmed Sareer as the Maldives' ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
President Mohamed Muizzu submitted Sareer’s nomination to the parliament on October 15, following the reassignment of the them ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Thoha, to the post of ambassador to Pakistan.
The foreign affairs committee of parliament reviewed Sareer’s nomination and submitted its report to the parliament.
In Tuesday's sitting, the committee’s recommendation was presented and approved by a unanimous vote of 86 members.
Sareer is serving as Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1 October.
Since February 1986, he has held a career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, having served as the Foreign Secretary from June 2017 to November 2018; as Maldives Ambassador to the United States of America and concurrently Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2012 to 2017; and as Maldives High Commissioner to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh from 2009 to 2012.
He also held diplomatic postings at Maldives Missions in Colombo (1988-1989); London (2008-2009), Brussels (2008) and Colombo (2006-2008).
During his foreign service career, he has undertaken more than 75 official visits abroad representing the Maldives.
From 1 November 2018 to 30 September, he had taken an extended no-pay leave from the Government of Maldives to serve at the General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
From 2000 to 2003, he represented the Maldives as Director at the Secretariat of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Canberra, Australia and a Masters degree in Foreign Affairs and Trade from Monash University, Australia. He attained a Certificate on Foreign Service having attended a training programme conducted by Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
