The Diplomat
Pedro Martínez-Avial, the current director general of Casa Árabe, was appointed yesterday by the Council of Ministers as the new ambassador to Iraq, replacing Juan José Escobar, as The Diplomat reported.
Martínez-Avial has been in charge of Casa Árabe since August 2017, and now returns to the Embassy in Baghdad, which was his first posting abroad, after entering the diplomatic career in 1987.
Subsequently, he was posted in the Czech Republic, Cuba, Chile, Mexico, where he was second in command, and in Germany, where he was consul general in Hamburg. In Madrid, he was deputy director general of the Institute for Cooperation with the Arab World and deputy director general for cooperation with Arab and Mediterranean countries at the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation. Between 2006 and 2008, he was an advisory member of the Directorate General for the Mediterranean, Near East and Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
In addition, the Council of Ministers appointed Miriam Álvarez de la Rosa, who was currently posted at the Embassy in Lisbon, as the new Ambassador to Mauritania.
She entered the diplomatic service in 1969 and has been posted to the Spanish Embassies in Ecuador, Sweden and Morocco, as well as to the Permanent Representation to NATO in Brussels.
In Madrid, she has held several positions in the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for the European Union, in the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation and in the Directorate General for Foreign Policy.
