The Diplomat
The diplomat Ramón Gil-Casares, who was ambassador to the United States and one of José María Aznar’s main collaborators in international affairs, has joined the team of the new Foundation linked to the PP.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo commissioned the former president of Renfe, during the time of Mariano Rajoy, Pablo Vázquez, to reorganise the Concordia y Libertad Foundation, created by Pablo Casado to bring together the foundations of the PP. Vázquez has been recruiting some people, including Gil-Casares, and on Friday the presentation of the new Foundation, whose name is not yet known, will take place.
Ramón Gil-Casares, who was recently promoted to the professional category of ambassador within the Diplomatic Career, is currently assigned to the Africa Directorate-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, awaiting retirement, which will occur in seven months, when he turns 70.
Feijóo wants to take advantage of Gil-Casares’ experience in international affairs and, in fact, he has also been participating, together with other diplomats, in the meetings held with the PP’s Deputy Secretary General in charge of Institutional Affairs, Esteban González Pons, to prepare the PP’s foreign policy programme.
Ramón Gil-Casares was in charge of the Department of International Affairs during José María Aznar’s first government and part of the second, that is, between 1996 and 2002, when he was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Between 2005 and 2008, under the governments of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, he was ambassador to South Africa, and between 2011 and 2012, to Sudan. After Mariano Rajoy’s arrival in La Mocnloa at the beginning of 2012, he was appointed ambassador to the United States, where he remained until 2017.
After spending some time as director of the Diplomatic School, in 2018 he was sent by the government of Pedro Sánchez as ambassador to Egypt, until his resignation in August last year.
Along with Gil-Casares, Pablo Vázquez has been incorporating other people from different fields, not necessarily PP militants, such as Toni Nadal, uncle and former coach of tennis player Rafael Nadal, or the former Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal in the government of Passos Coelho. Nuno Crato.
