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Diplomat Adrián Martín Couce will replace María Sebastián de Erice as ambassadors’ introducer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to The Diplomat.
The replacement will take place in the coming weeks, simultaneously with the appointment of the current director general of Protocol, Chancellery and Orders as Spain’s permanent representative ambassador to the United Nations Office and International Organisations based in Vienna.
The government may be waiting for Australia’s approval before appointing Esther Monterrubio, who currently heads the Permanent Representation in Vienna, as its new ambassador to that country.
María Sebastián de Erice was appointed ambassadorial introducer in July 2021, following the arrival of José Manuel Albares at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and after having held the post of deputy director general of Travel and Official Visits, Ceremonial and Orders since 2018, where she acted as the second ambassador`s introducer.
A diplomat since 2007, she was also ‘number two’ at the Embassies in Trinidad and Tobago and Andorra, as well as director of Institutional Relations at the Office of the High Commissioner of the Government for Marca España.
Adrián Martin Couce was until recently posted to the Permanent Representation of Spain to the United Nations in New York.
He entered the diplomatic career in 2007 and since then has been Deputy Director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for the EU, in addition to having been posted to the Permanent Representation of Spain to NATO in Brussels, and to the Spanish Embassies in Mauritania and Turkey.
