Day: 18 June 2017

Gilles Tonelli, Government Counselor for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, received new ambassadors at a luncheon at Monte Carlo Bay on Friday, June 16.

HE Mr. Moin ul Haque, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; HE Mr. Rupert Schlegelmilch, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the European Union; HE Mrs Carmen Maria Gallardo Hernandez, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of El Salvador and HE Mr Imants Viesturs Liegis, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Latvia, had earlier in the day presented their Letters of Appointment to HSH the Sovereign Prince.

HE Mr. Moin ul Haque joined the Diplomatic Service of Pakistan in 1987, where he became Director in 2005 and then Director General in 2013. In the same year, he was appointed Chief of Protocol. He has held various diplomatic posts abroad: Brussels, New York, Colombo, Vancouver and Ankara.

After five years in the Directorate General of External Relations of the European Commission in Brussels HE Mr. Rupert Schlegelmilch joined the Directorate-General for Trade in Brussels in 2003 as Head of Section in charge of international business relations. In 2012, he was appointed Director of Services, Investments, Public Procurement and Intellectual Property Rights.

HE Carmen Maria Gallardo Hernandez began her diplomatic career in 1993 as Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of El Salvador to Unesco. She is then appointed Ambassador to France and Portugal, Executive Director of FUNDAPAZ and Member of the Task Force. In 2007, she became Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and then served as Ambassador in Austria and in five countries in the East and South East Asia. In 2014 HE Ms Hernandez joined the Permanent Representation to the International Organisations and the United Nations in Vienna.

Ambassador of Latvia to Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1997, HE Mr. Imants Viesturs Liegis joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004 as Under-Secretary of State. He then served as Ambassador to Spain. In 2010, he was successively appointed Acting Minister of Justice, then Minister of Defence. He subsequently joined Parliament as Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for European Affairs. From September 2012 to June 2016, he served as Ambassador to Hungary, Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia.

The 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival was officially opened on Friday evening by Honorary President HSH Prince Albert II. The red carpet event was attended by a host of acting and creative talent from around the world.

The presidents and members of the 2017 Golden Nymph juries were introduced to a packed auditorium of invited guests and fans in the Salle Des Princes at the Grimaldi Forum.

Golden Nymph Fiction Jury President Juan José Campanella was accompanied by Fiction Jury members, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Corbett, Peter M Lenkov and Odile Vuillemin. News Jury President Etienne Leenhardt was joined by News Jury members, Mona Friis Bertheussen, Eszter Cseke, Phil Rees, Andras Takacs and Annette Young.

The Opening Ceremony was followed by the global premiere screening of the first episode of Sony Pictures Television Networks’ new thriller series Absentia, in the presence of actors, Stana Katic, Patrick Heusinger and other members of the cast and crew. The 57th edition of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival sees a number of new initiatives which are open to the public such as Behind The Scenes panels, Meet The Stars autograph and selfie sessions and brand new programming screenings.

Laurent Puons, CEO said: “The Festival has a long-held ambition to develop opportunities for fans to get up-close and personal with their idols. I am therefore very pleased to have extended the scope this year to include the many fans who are eager to know more about their favourite shows, enabling them to make true connections here in Monaco.”

The Monte-Carlo Television Festival attracts a wide range of acting, production and writing talent from around the world who travel to Monte-Carlo for the four-day celebration of programming including many nominated for the Golden Nymph Awards which will be presented later this week at the close of the Festival.

The Festival was inaugurated by HSH Prince Rainier and is widely recognised as one of the many legacies of Princess Grace that helped put Monaco on the world map as a centre of excellence in modern culture.

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Monaco’s Criminal Court has been told that a 33-year-old Israeli living in Russia kept a wallet containing 12,000 euros he had found in the Fairmont Monte Carlo.

The resident, a father of three, committed the offence last August and was quickly apprehended by the police using video surveillance. When arrested, the defendant said that the wallet had contained 7,500 euros, but added that he was prepared to make up the difference in the two amounts.

He also told the police that he believed the wallet had fallen from his wife’s handbag, although video cameras told a different story. He was alone when he picked up the wallet.

Prosecuting counsel said that the accused earned 15,000 euros a month but had taken advantage of the opportunity to steal 12,000 euros. Prosecutor Cyrielle Colle called for a warning from the court and a fine corresponding to his monthly income to give him cause for reflection.

Defence counsel said that the defendant – absent from the hearing – was an honest businessman who suffered from a moment of weakness.

The court decided on a suspended prison sentence of 15 days.

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HE Ms. Carole Lanteri, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Principality to the United Nations Office in Geneva and Ms. Chrystel Chanteloube, Third Secretary, participated in the Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health organised by the World Health Organisation in Ostrava, Czech Republic, from June 12 to 15.

A video message from HSH the Sovereign Prince was shown during the opening ceremony, in which he recalled that 13 million deaths each year are caused by environmental pollution, including more than one million children.

On the strength of this scientifically proven fact, the European region, which has been a pioneer in this field for more than 25 years, must continue and intensify its efforts, the Prince said.

The Ostrava Conference concluded with the adoption of a declaration to strengthen synergies at the national level in order to accelerate efforts to reduce sources of pollution and improve health, in particular by increasing collaboration in the European region.

The ministerial conferences of the European Environment and Health process provide a unique platform for cross-sector policy. This platform brings together the relevant sectors and partners to develop environmental and health policies and measures and so advance the work carried out in these areas in the WHO European Region .

La Poste Monaco, with the support of the Monegasque authorities, is organising the launch meeting of a “Small Countries” working group.

The aim is to take advantage of the very short decision-making times in these smaller states to implement innovative solutions in line with the aims of the PostEurop Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Circle, to improve the performance of our postal companies, La Poste Monaco said.

“The similarities of our organisations and their ability to quickly test new innovative concepts and to swiftly decide their implementation are a significant asset, especially in the face of current environmental, social and societal challenges,” La Poste Monaco added.

For example, PostEurop’s CSR has identified a number of topics of common interest among the “small countries” to meet their expressed need to share experiences, work together and capitalise on effective solutions.

The first step will be a workshop in the Principality on June 21, 22 and 23 on the theme: “Corporate Social Responsibility Applied to Small Countries, a lever for innovation and performance in the service of their sustainable development”.

Nine countries, including Monaco, represented by Jean-Luc Delcroix, Director of La Poste in the Principality, will take part in this event: Guernsey, Luxembourg, Montenegro, San Marino, the Vatican, Monaco, Switzerland and two observer countries, Romania and Bosnia Herzegovina.

La Poste Monaco will take the chairmanship of this group, which is to meet once a year.

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