
Kutubuddin Ahmed has been appointed as honorary consul of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste in Bangladesh, said a press release.
In a letter of patent, Bendito dos Santos Freitas, foreign affairs and cooperation minister of Timor-Leste, stated: ‘I hereby appoint Kutubuddin Ahmed as the honorary consul of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, with competence for the defence and protection of the interests of Timor-Leste and its citizens in Dhaka, in accordance with the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and the legislation in force in both Timor-Leste and Bangladesh.’
Kutubuddin Ahmed, chairman of Sheltech Group, Envoy Legacy and Envoy Textiles Limited, was awarded the Title of Knight Officer of the Spanish Royal Order of Merit by the King of Spain in 2020.