Apology: 'Former envoy to Kenya Pindi Chana tour of duty ended December 2019'

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The Nairobi posting was filled last week by Dr John Stephen Simbachawene following his swearing in by President John Magufuli at the State House in Dodoma.

The Nairobi posting was filled last week by Dr John Stephen Simbachawene following his swearing in by President John Magufuli at the State House in Dodoma.
“Dr Simbachawene would only be sworn in and eventually proceed to his appointed station after the receiving state had formally given its approval to receive him as Tanzania’s next envoy,” reads the statement.
The statement further adds that this diplomatic etiquette is one that has endured the test of time and that it is a procedure that is well anchored in the Vienna Convention of 1961 on diplomatic relations.
“It was on the basis of the completion of this diplomatic requirement that HE Dr John Pombe Magufuli, President of the United Republic of Tanzania swore in the Ambassador-designate Dr John Stephen Simbachawene as Tanzania’s next Commissioner,” writes the PS in his statement.

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