On January 15, 2009, Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the people accepted credentials presented respectively by ambassadors to China from Pakistan, Brazil, Switzerland, Croatia, Armenia, Kenya, Jamaica, Montenegro, Morocco, and Latvia.

Montenegrin ambassador Ljiljana Toskovic is the country's first ambassador to China. The other nine new ambassadors include: M. Masood Khan from Pakistan, Clodoaldo Hugueney Filho from Brazil, Blaise Godet from Switzerland, Ante Simonic from Croatia, Armen Sargsyan from Armenia, Julius Lekakeny Ole Sunkuli from Kenya, Earle Courtenay Rattray from Jamaica, Jaafar Alj Hakim from Morocco and Ingrida Levrence from Latvia.