The European External Action Service announced on Tuesday 9 July the appointment by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of 46 new EU Heads of Delegations.
Europe. Estonian Matti Maasikas becomes Ambassador to Ukraine.
Germany's Dirk Schuebel has been appointed Head of the EU Delegation in Belarus to replace his compatriot Andrea Wiktorin, who is taking over as the Head of the EU Delegation in Armenia.
Johann Sattler, an Austrian national, becomes EU ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Middle East. Cypriot Maria Hadjitheodosiou becomes Head of the EU Delegation to Jordan, replacing Italian Matteo Fontana, who takes over as Head of the Delegation to the United Arab Emirates.
Germans Martin Huth and Ralph-Joseph Tarraf are the new EU ambassadors in Iraq and Lebanon.
Hans Grundberg, a Swedish national, becomes head of the delegation in Yemen.
For his part, Frenchman Gilles Bertrand is the appointed interim official in Syria.
Africa. Germany's Wolfram Vetter has been appointed Head of the EU Delegation in Burkina Faso; he is replaced as ambassador to Burundi by France's Claude Bochu. Vincent Degert, also French, becomes ambassador to Mauritius.
Irishman Aidan O'Hara leads the delegation in Djibouti and his counterpart Simon Mordue in Kenya.
Belgium's Bart Ouvry becomes ambassador to Mali, Portugal's Rosario Bento Pais to Gabon, his compatriot Sónia Neto to Guinea Bissau and Hungary's Gábor Iklody to Eritrea.
The Finnish Sinikka Antila becomes Head of the Delegation in Namibia and the Estonian Riina Kionka in South Africa.
Jacek Jankowski, a Polish national, was appointed Head of the Delegation in Zambia, and the Dutchman Robert Van Den Dool in Sudan. Italy's Manfredo Fanti is the new ambassador to Tanzania, while Spain's Nicolás Berlanga Martinez leads the delegation to Somalia.
Americas. Sylvie Tabesse of France is appointed Head of the EU Delegation in Haiti.
The Spaniards Fernando Ponz, Pelayo Castro Zuzuarregui, Ignacio Ybanez Rubio and Antonia Calvo Pueta become ambassadors in Guyana, Nicaragua, Brazil and Costa Rica respectively.
Pacific. Sujiro Seam, a French national, becomes EU Ambassador to the Pacific region.
Slovenian Jernej Videtic leads the delegation in Papua New Guinea and German Noiona Obermaier in New Zealand.
Asia. Italians Pier Giorgio Aliberti and Ugo Astuto become ambassadors to Vietnam and India respectively.
Greek Androulla Kaminara leads the delegation in Pakistan, Spanish Carmen Moreno becomes Head of the EU Delegation in Cambodia, Dutch Vincent Piket in Indonesia and Brunei.
Frenchman Andrew Jacobs leads the delegation in East Timor.
Belgium's Danis Chaibi will be the EU's new ambassador to Sri Lanka and his compatriot Igor Driesmans will be the one to ASEAN.
Finally, the Polish Filip Grzegorzewski takes over the European Economic and Trade Office in Taiwan.
International organizations. Austria's Stephan Klement becomes Head of the EU Delegation to the United Nations/International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, replacing Frenchman Didier Lenoir, who becomes ambassador to the EU delegation to the OECD/UNESCO in Paris.
Portuguese João Aguiar Machado takes over as head of the EU's permanent mission to the WTO. (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)