The Diplomat
The Council of Ministers yesterday appointed Carlos Abella and José Antonio de Ory to the posts of Ambassador on Special Mission to the Ibero-American Summits and Ibero-American Spaces and Ambassador on Special Mission for Inclusive Peace and Security Missions and Operations, respectively. Fernando Fernández-Arias Minuesa was also appointed director general of the United Nations, International Organisations and Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as announced in The Diplomat.
Carlos Abella has held, among other positions, the posts of technical advisor and member of the advisory board in the cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and advisor on international affairs and director general of International Relations and Foreign Affairs in the Ministry of the Interior. Abroad, he has been posted to the Spanish Embassy in Kinshasha, Zagreb, Moscow and Tokyo and has been ambassador to Ecuador to date. In his new post, he will support the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and for Ibero-America and the Caribbean and the Directorate-General for Ibero-America and the Caribbean in preparing the Ibero-American Summits. Likewise, and with the same aim, he will be responsible for internal coordination of the Spanish administration and for coordination between the Spanish administration, on the one hand, and the SEGIB, other Ibero-American organisations and the member states of the Ibero-American system, on the other.
For his part, José Antonio de Ory has held posts in the Spanish embassies in Bogotá, New Delhi, the United Nations in New York, UNESCO in Paris and Tokyo and has devoted most of his administrative career to multilateral affairs, as he was, among other positions, advisor to the Spanish Mission to the UN, in charge of the Security Council and the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C-34), and deputy permanent delegate to UNESCO.
Fernando Fernández-Arias will also fill the vacancy left in the Directorate-General for the United Nations, International Organisations and Human Rights by Marcos Gómez, who was recently appointed Spanish ambassador to Colombia. Fernández-Arias is currently the ambassador-director of the Diplomatic School, a post in which he has been very active since he took up his post in September 2018. The School will be temporarily headed by the Deputy Director, María Palacios.
