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Eduardo Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Diplomat Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez-Zavala, who until now served as Special Envoy for Syria, has become Spain’s first ambassador to Damascus since 2012, when his predecessor, Julio Albi, withdrew in retaliation for the Bashar al-Assad regime’s repressive policies against anti-government protests. <\/strong>Since then, the mission had been headed by a charg\u00e9 d’affaires based in Beirut.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez-Zavala was appointed on January 25 by the Council of Ministers. A graduate in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and a member of the Diplomatic Corps since 2002, his career has been closely linked to security issues and development cooperation policies.<\/p>\n

He was Ambassador on Special Mission to the Sahel and headed the Department of Cooperation with the Arab World and Asia at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). He also participated in various international cooperation and reconstruction mechanisms, including the Senegal Donor Group (G7\/G50), the trust funds for Libya and Iraq, and the Afghanistan Reconstruction Fund.<\/p>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez-Zavala has served as Spain’s ambassador to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and as political counselor at the Spanish Embassy in Mexico. He has also held deputy head of mission positions at the Spanish Embassies in Senegal, Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Previously, he was Spain’s consul general in Quito and Lagos, as well as acting consul general in Algiers and Jerusalem. He has been awarded the NATO Medal for service in Afghanistan, the Military Merit Cross with white distinction, the Order of Civil Merit, and the Officer’s Cross and Order of Isabella the Catholic.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez-Zavala was appointed Special Envoy for Syria, a post he held until his death. His appointment to the Embassy in Damascus is part of the ongoing process of normalizing diplomatic relations with the government of Ahmed al-Shara, former leader of Al-Qaeda’s branch in the country and President of Syria since January 2015, following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December 2014.<\/p>\n

On August 25, Daniel Losada was also appointed Spanish Ambassador to Sudan and Eritrea. Losada had been serving as Special Envoy to Sudan since February 2016. He has held the positions of Consul General in Lagos, First Secretary in Mexico, Deputy Head of Mission in Baghdad, and Counselor in Kabul. At the Ministry’s headquarters, he has served as Director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Ibero-America and the Caribbean and Spanish in the World, Advisor in the same unit, and Technical Advisor in the Minister’s Cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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