Jorma Paukku (20 May 1945 – 1 May 2016) was a Finnish diplomat and a foreign affairs counselor .
Paukku was born in Pielisjärvi. He was a Finnish ambassador from 2002 to 2007 to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and was also accredited as Ambassador to Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He died in Espoo aged 70.
Noble Lake is a lake in the U.S. state of Montana. The elevation of the lake is 9025 feet.
Marja-Liisa Kiljunen is a Finnish diplomat. She has been Finnish Ambassador to Lithuania and Belarus from 2008 to 2012.
Prior to that, she served as a circulating ambassador from Helsinki in 2004 to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and from 2004 to 2005 to Mongolia. She has served as in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 1983.
Kiljunen has worked in Finland at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Development Cooperation Department and East Department and has served in the Finnish Embassy in Nairobi.Kiljunen has also worked at the University of Helsinki, at the UN University's Wider-Institute and at the headquarters of UNICEF in New York and at the Finnish UN Association and at the Social Democratic Party's Women organization as secretary.
Amb. Ismail Sheikh Hassan or Ismail Sheikh Hassan Nuriye also referred to as His Excelleny H.E Mohamed Sheikh (, ),was born and had studied in Dire Dawa eastern part of Ethiopia. He had studied in Koranic school, then studied French at the Alliance Française. Later, he was teaching in this French school. As a son of Dire Dawa he had the ability of speaking several local and international languages among which Amharic, Somali, Arabic, French, English… In the late fifties he went to the capital city Addis Ababa. He started working at the special cabinet of Emperor Haile Selassie. The Emperor granted him the noble title of “Kegn Azmatch” for his appreciated work for the nation. In the early seventies he was sent to Israel for further studies. In the aftermath of these studies he was nominated as “Charge d’Affaire” to Sudan. In the early eighties he was nominated as ambassador to Libya. As a prominent ambassador for Ethiopia, Ismail Sheikh Hassan was 1 of the 3 ambassadorial brothers from Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia, all ethnic Somalis, the other 2 brothers were Mohamed Sheikh Hassan and Aden Sheikh Hassan. All from the same prominent family who were one of the most interesting in the Horn of Africa.The first time in history 3 Somali brothers managed to become ambassadors in 3 neighbouring countries. Ambassador Ismail Sheikh Hassan have six children. Two girls and four boys. His elder son, Fouad Ismaël Frédéric had studied in the French School of Addis Ababa, then in Sorbonne University where he studied Political Science. Following the footsteps of his father he had a career as an international civil servant in several international NGO, the UN, the Eu and the African Development Bank where he finished his career as a diplomat and the Director of Ethics.