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Federico Torres Muro will replace Fidel Sendagorta as director general for Foreign and Security Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Diplomat has learned from reliable sources.
The replacement at the head of the Directorate General with the greatest weight within the Ministry, on which political relations within the European Union depend, may be approved at today’s Council of Ministers.
Torres Muro was appointed Director General for Strategy, Foresight and Coherence in February 2020, until his post was abolished a week ago, following the disappearance of the Secretary of State for Global Spain. In that post he was the main person responsible for drawing up, together with the then Secretary of State, Manuel Muñiz, the Foreign Action Strategy 2021-2024.
The new Director General of Foreign Policy has extensive experience as a diplomat, in a career that began in 1985 and during which he has been Spain’s ambassador to Ecuador and El Salvador, as well as “number two” in the Permanent Representation of Spain to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
Torres Muro was also posted to the Embassies in Libya, Argentina, the United Kingdom and Morocco, and was Director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and of the Cabinet of the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Government.
Fidel Sendagorta, who may be dismissed today from the post he has held since the beginning of 2020, after having been ambassador to Egypt and director general for North America, Asia and the Pacific, will foreseeably move on to take charge of an embassy.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, must also make two other appointments, one in the recently created Directorate General for Spanish in the World and the other in the Directorate General for Sustainable Development Policies, vacant due to the appointment of Javier Salido as Director General for North America, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific.
