Luis Ayllón The diplomat Javier Herrera García-Canturri will be appointed ambassador to Slovenia, replacing Juan de Arístegui, as The Diplomat learned from diplomatic sources.The position of ambassador in Ljubljana was one of the most requested by diplomats after, at the beginning of last March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, published a list of fifteen Embassies that would be covered during this year. Also included in this “bamboo” as it is known in diplomatic jargon were the Mission Headquarters in Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Norway, Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, El Salvador, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Iraq and Kuwait. Bolivia and Kazakhstan have already been covered and the rest are expected to be covered within a few months. Javier Herrera, who entered the Diplomatic Career in 1989, has been consul general of Spain in Paris since January 2020 and was previously ambassador of Spain in Kenya (between 2010 and 2014), and was stationed in the Embassies in the Philippines and Peru . He has also been general director of International Legal Cooperation and Relations with Faiths, deputy director general of Protection of Spaniards Abroad; and deputy director general of International Terrorism Affairs.
