Four new Ambassadors to Monaco, hailing from the Holy See, Uruguay, Colombia and Angola, have presented their letters of credence to Prince Albert II.
The diplomats, united by their desires to strengthen ties with the Principality, each enjoyed an audience with the Prince ahead of a lunch with Isabelle Berro-Amadeï, Monaco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
The four new ambassadors were welcomed to the Principality on 18th September with all the usual ceremonies and traditions befitting a high-level diplomat.
They began their morning with a visit to the Palais Princier de Monaco, where they met Prince Albert II and presented the sovereign with their letters of credence, outlining their singular talents and experiences.
From there, the representatives from the Holy See, Uruguay, Colombia and Angola headed to the Hôtel Hermitage for a lunch hosted by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Isabelle Berro-Amadeï.
About the new ambassadors
The Holy See’s new representative in Monaco, Apostolic Nuncio Monsignor Martin Krebs, was ordained into the priesthood in 1983 in Rome before becoming parish vicar in Duisburg, Germany. After obtaining his Doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1991, he was appointed to various Apostolic Nunciatures around the world. He obtained his Episcopal Ordination in 2008 in Essen, Germany and became Apostolic Nuncio in Guinea and Mali the same year, then in New Zealand and 10 Pacific states between 2013 and 2018. After a stint in Uruguay from 2018 to 2021, Monsignor Krebs is now accredited in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Monaco.
Angolan political scientist and economist Guilhermina Prata started her career as a senior civil servant as Director of the Office of Legal Studies in Angola in 1985. By 1992, she was elected to Angola’s Parliament in the National Assembly and then became Minister of Justice in 2008. By 2012, she was appointed President of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of the National Assembly in Luanda. In 2023, Prata was appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Angola to France. She now adds Monaco to her functions.
Lawyer and professor Hernando Alfonso Prada Gil taught at Colombia’s Universidad Libre for over two decades before moving into politics in 2017, when he was made Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic by then-President Juan Manuel Santos. In August 2022, President Gustavo Petro appointed him as Minister of the Interior, a position he held until April 2023, when he was appointed Ambassador of Colombia to France. As with Angola’s new representative, he will join his functions in France alongside his posting in Monaco.
Uruguayan Jorge Luis Jure Arnoletti has been a career diplomat since 1978. He became Consul and Chargé of the Consulate General in New York in 1982 and 1985, then entered the 1990s as Counsellor of the Embassy in London. In 1998, he was made Minister of the Uruguayan Embassy in France. His first stint as Ambassador came in 2007, when he was appointed to Lebanon and Cyprus. In 2016, he was assigned to Nicaragua and by 2020, he was working as the Ambassador to France and Algeria. Monaco joins his roster of responsibilities.
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