windows of the diplomatic service to the world of publication. Her next stint, as Director General for the newly established Policy and Strategy Planning within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, found Fauziah at the forefront of a number of new initiatives for the government. One of her papers, commissioned by the Foreign Minister, argued for a specific legal department within the Ministry, and led to the creation of the Ministry's Department of Research, Treaties and International Law. She was also a member of the Malaysian team to the International Court of Justice on the legal dispute of Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge between Malaysia and Singapore. Fauziah's other overseas postings include as Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington, D.C. and Ambassador to Fiji (with concurrent accreditation to Nauru, Tonga, Kiribati, and Tuvalu), before being assigned as Ambassador to the Netherlands. MH17 Crisis Management On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down in rebel-held Ukrainian territory, near the Ukrainian-Russian border. A total of 283 passengers and 15 crew members from ten different countries were on board the ill-fated plane when it crashed. The majority of the passengers were Dutch. When the human remains of flight MH17 were brought back to the Netherlands for the post-mortem process, Fauziah Mohd. Taib was appointed as her country's lead focal point, heading Malaysia's Joint Operations Centre in The Hague to oversee the repatriation of victims to their home country. As Ambassador, she also liaised with the Dutch government on matters related to the downed aircraft. Fauziah's interviews on several TV stations in the Netherlands as well as that of Malaysia, made her the 'face' of the MH17 crisis management operations in the Netherlands. Publications Books Malaysia and UNCED: An Analysis of a Diplomatic Process: 1989 – 1992 (Kluwer Law International,1997) A Diplomat Arrives in Washington (USA,2003) /-3 Rumah Malaysia, Suva: The Official Residence of the High Commissioner (Fiji, 2004) Selected Foreign Policy Speeches by Syed Hamid Albar (Editor) (Malaysia, 2005) The Making of the ASEAN Summit (Malaysia, 2006) Number One, Wisma Putra (Editor) (Malaysia, 2006) /11-4 Manual of Procedures for Wisma Putra Officers (Editor) (Malaysia, 2007) Letta, Corrado. Malaysia-Europe Strategic Partnership for the Pacific Century. Edited by Fauziah Mohd Taib (Malaysia, 2008) Brushwork Odyssey in Malaysia: A Dutch Retelling (Editor) (Netherlands, 2009) Letta, Corrado. Integration Geopolitics: East Asia vs Latin America (Edited