<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The Council of Ministers has appointed Javier Salido Ortiz to the post of Spanish ambassador to Uruguay on Tuesday. He replaces Santiago Jiménez, recently appointed ambassador to Colombia.</strong></h4> Born in 1977 in Madrid, Salido has been a career diplomat since 2004. Throughout his career he has held positions in the Spanish Embassies in Brazil, India and Trinidad and Tobago, where he served as Second Chief. He has also been an advisory member of the Cabinet of the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Government, head of the Latin America and Debt area in the General Directorate of International Economic Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, deputy director general of Multilateral and European Development Policies in that same General Directorate and representative of Spain in the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD between 2016 and 2020. In the first half of 2021, he served as director general of Sustainable Development Policies of the State Secretariat for International Cooperation and, from July of that year until April 2024, he was director general for North America, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific. After his dismissal and until now, he served as an advisory member of this same General Directorate. The Council of Ministers has also appointed <strong>Salvador Rueda as Spain's ambassador to Denmark</strong>, replacing María Victoria González Román. A graduate in Law and in Economics and Business Administration (ICADE E3), Rueda joined the diplomatic service in 2001. He has been Director General of Integration and Coordination of General Affairs of the European Union from 2021 to 2024. Previously, he was Deputy Director General of Institutional Affairs of the European Union (2020-2021) and Deputy Director General of Justice and Home Affairs of the European Union (2019-2020). From 2016 to 2019, he held the second position at the Spanish Embassy in Indonesia and East Timor and before ASEAN. He was coordinator at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union between 2011 and 2016 and head of the Technical Office of the General Secretariat for the European Union from 2008 to 2010. From 2002 to 2007 he was assigned to the Embassy of Spain in Germany and before that he was part of the cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (2001-2002). He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica, as well as the Officer's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit. Furthermore, the Council of Ministers has appointed <strong>Alberto Cerezo to the position of ambassador on Special Mission for the Sahel</strong>. He replaces Antonio González-Zavala, recently appointed to the position of special envoy for Syria. A graduate in Law from the San Pablo CEU University and a graduate in Political Science from the Complutense University, he has been a career diplomat since June 2001. He has been posted to the Spanish Embassies in Cameroon (2003-2006) and Mozambique (2009-2012), where he served as Second Chief, as well as in Paraguay (2006-2009), as head of consular affairs, and China, as counselor (2017). In 2014 he was the first Spanish diplomat accredited to the Burmese authorities, as Chargé d'Affaires a.i., residing in Yangon (Myanmar), and was responsible for opening the first Spanish diplomatic office in that country. As Chargé d'Affaires a.i., he also served at the Embassy of Mozambique between September and November 2019. He was also head of service in the Subdirectorate General for North Africa (2002) and advisory member in the Department of International Affairs of the Cabinet of the President of the Government, in charge of North African affairs (2012-2014) and deputy director general of Bilateral Relations with the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (2017-2020). He was later the Spanish ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique.
