<h6><strong>Eduardo González </strong></h6> <h5 class="lRu31" dir="ltr"><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><strong>The Council of Ministers on Tuesday appointed Spain's new ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Albania and Mauritania, as announced by the Government and as diplomatic sources had previously told <em>The Diplomat</em>.</strong></span></span></span></h5> On the one hand, <strong>Gabriel Cremadas</strong>, who until now served as deputy director general for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will assume the position of <strong>Spanish ambassador to Albania</strong>. Cremades joined the Diplomatic Service in 1999 and has held second positions in the Embassies in Serbia and Malta. He was also stationed in Managua and at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the United Nations in New York and was deputy consul in Miami until October 2021, when he was appointed deputy director general for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He was also an advisor on two occasions in the International Department of the Presidency of the Government and was in charge of the Department of Cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). Cremades replaces <strong>Álvaro Renedo</strong> in Albania, who will be appointed this Tuesday to the post of <strong>Spanish ambassador to Qatar</strong>. Born in Burgos in 1980 and a member of the Diplomatic Service since 2007, Renedo has been Spain's consul general in Algiers since 2020. Previously, he held, among others, the positions of advisory member in the Office of the Secretary of State for the European Union and director of the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Office of the Presidency of the Government. He has been awarded the Cross of Military Merit. Renedo replaces <strong>Javier Carbajosa</strong> in Qatar, who will become <strong>Spain's ambassador to Saudi Arabia</strong>. A diplomat since 1985, Carbajosa has been ambassador to Pakistan and Trinidad and Tobago. He has also been number two in the embassies in the United Kingdom and Algeria, deputy director general of the Middle East and ambassador on a Special Mission for Migration Issues, and has been posted to Mauritania, Belgium, Ecuador and the United States. Furthermore, <strong>Pablo Barbará</strong> is the new <strong>Spanish ambassador to Mauritania</strong>, where he replaces Míriam Álvarez de la Rosa. Barbará was until now a Foreign Relations counsellor at the Permanent Representation (REPER) of Spain to the EU. Pablo Barbará joined the Diplomatic Service in 2000 and since then has held various positions abroad and in the Ministry. He has held the second position in the Spanish Embassies in Turkey and Egypt, after which he was appointed deputy director general of the Middle East in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also served in the Embassies in Colombia, Honduras and Angola and has been head of the Department of Coordination of Cultural and Scientific Relations of the AECID. Barbará replaces <strong>Míriam Álvarez de la Rosa</strong>, who was appointed this Tuesday to the post of ambassador on Special Mission for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law. A member of the Diplomatic Service since 1999, she has served as Spain's ambassador to Mauritania since July 2021. Previously, she was posted at the Spanish Embassy in Quito, at the Spanish Delegation to NATO, at the Spanish Embassy in Stockholm, at the Spanish Embassy in Rabat and at the Spanish Embassy in Lisbon. In Madrid, she has held various positions in the State Secretariat for Foreign Affairs, in the Office of the Secretary of State for the European Union, at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation and at the General Directorate of Foreign Policy.
