Universities In The Netherlands Will Limit The Admission Of International Students
Dutch universities will take measures to limit the influx of foreign students and improve proficiency in the Dutch language among both students and staff.
The new ambassador of the Netherlands to Bulgaria Karel van Kesteren submitted his credentials to the President Georgi Parvanov.
Karel van Kesteren was born in 1948. He graduated in international law from Nijmegen University, the Netherlands, and joined the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1974. During the next ten years he held various posts in the United Nations Department of the Ministry, attending numerous UN and other international meetings.
As from 1984 he has been consecutively Deputy Head of Mission at the Dutch Embassy in Colombia, Head of Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague working on development finance issues, Head of Mission at the Dutch Embassy in Nicaragua, Deputy Head of Mission at the Dutch Embassy in Spain, Director of the United Nations and International Financial Institutions Department in the Ministry in The Hague, and till July 2009 Dutch ambassador to Tanzania with three countries of co-accreditation, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Comoros.
Karel van Kesteren is the author of various publications on development financing, the use of aid money for reduction of external debts of developing countries, Dutch-Nicaraguan relations in the 19th century, Official Development Assistance and global public goods, Security Council reform and UN reform in general.
He speaks Dutch (mother tongue), English, French, Spanish and German.
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