Juan David Latorre
Maurizio Carlo Gelli, Nicaragua’s Ambassador to Spain, has been accredited as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Greece and Andorra.
On 30 October, the Nicaraguan Ambassador was received by Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President of the Hellenic Republic, to present the Letters of Credence. Ambassador Maurizio Carlo Gelli conveyed to the President and her entourage, composed of the Chief of Protocol, Aglaia Balta, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Giorgos Gerapetritis, and the Secretary of the Presidency, Aliki Chatzi, the greetings of the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, and the Vice-President Rosario Murillo.
During the ceremony, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou expressed interest in strengthening trade, cultural and bilateral cooperation ties between the two nations. At the end of the ceremony, the appointed Ambassador to Greece held a cordial bilateral meeting with the Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, Nicolas Sigalas, who expressed “the commitment to work hand in hand for the development of the brotherly relations that unite our peoples”.
Likewise, on 10 November, Joan Enric Vives Sicília, Archbishop and Bishop of La Seu d’Urgell, Co-Prince of Andorra, received Maurizio Carlo Gelli at the Episcopal Palace in the town of La Seu d’Urgell, to hand over the Letters of Credence.
During the audience held in the main hall of the Palace and after the end of the protocolary act, the Nicaraguan ambassador conveyed to the Co-Prince of Andorra and his team a cordial greeting from the Nicaraguan people to the people of Andorra. At the end of the ceremony, the Co-Prince of Andorra held a bilateral meeting with Maurizio Gelli, in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Andorra, Imma Tor Fau, before whom the previous day, 9 November, the ceremony of the delivery of the copies of the Letters of Credence took place at the headquarters of the Government of Andorra. The Minister and Ambassador agreed to strengthen the ties of friendship, cultural, commercial and investment collaboration. Ambassador Gelli also proposed twinning the cities of Andorra la Vella with the Nicaraguan city of Granada, recently declared by UNESCO, Creative City of Design.
