The Diplomat
Coromoto Godoy, Venezuela’s new ambassador to Spain, presented the Copies of her Letters of Credence at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.
The ambassador, who arrived in Madrid in mid-November last year as Chargé d’Affaires, saw her appointment as ambassador ratified last week by the National Assembly controlled by the Bolivarian regime.
Her appointment was made possible after Spain decided on 27 December to elevate its representative in Caracas, Ramón Santos, who was Chargé d’Affaires with Cabinet letters, to the rank of ambassador.
Godoy went to the Palacio de Santa Cruz, the historic seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he handed over the Copies of her Letters of Credence to María Sebastián de Erice, the ambassador introducer, a step prior to the presentation of Letters of Credence to His Majesty the King.
For this, he will have to wait for a new act of presentation of Credentials to be convened in the Royal Palace for a group of new ambassadors who have arrived in Spain in recent months.
The Venezuelan Embassy said in a statement that Coromoto Godoy held a “pleasant and cordial meeting” with the head of Protocol and stressed that with this gesture “the bilateral relationship is re-established at ambassadorial level, after almost three years of having been developed at the level of chargé d’affaires”.
Godoy, who entered the diplomatic career in 2000 and has previously been ambassador to India and Trinidad and Tobago, will be the second woman to head the Venezuelan embassy in Madrid after Gladys Gutiérrez, who held the post between 2002 and 2005.
