HM received,ao,the Credentials of the new US ambassador to The Netherlands,Mr.Jim B. Culbertson,at Noordeinde Palace today.
He will probably stay untill january after which there's the change of government in the US.
His main task,as he sees it,is to prepare the celebrations on occasion of 400 Years relations between the US and The Netherlands in 2009.
Hudson,employed by the dutch VOC first arrived in what was called Nieuw-Amsterdam
At the time after the Boston tea party and it's outcome,The Netherlands were the first to recognize the new Nation.It was mainly from the dutch antillean island of St.Eustatius or Statia,that the new nation fighting the brits were provided with arms & funds&food,and it was upon the arrival of a US warship at St,Eustatius a salute was fired from the fortress,thus acknowledging the new nation.
Mr.Culbertson believes not to many in both the US and here know about these long ties/relations.
The private residence of the US ambassador to The Netherlands in The Hague:
ANP Beeldbank
courtesy Valerie Kuijpers/ANP/