Government appointed ambassadors to Australia, South Africa, Malta and Turkmenistan

The National Government appointed on Thursday ambassadors in Australia, South Africa, Malta and Turkmenistan. One of them is Eduardo Zuain, former official Cristina Kirchner sued for the memorandum with Iran.

President Alberto Fernandez, the chief of staff Santiago Cafeiero, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Felipe Sola they signed the decrees formalizing the appointments.

Through the Decree 570/2021, has been designated Eduardo Antonio Zuain as an ambassador of the Republic of Turkmenistan. He is a former Kirchner official sued in the memorandum affair with Iran, who in February this year was appointed head of the Argentine embassy in Moscow.

In the Official Bulletin it was specified that he could serve as ambassador to Turkmenistan, “Without prejudice to his current functions as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic to the Russian Federation.”

Zuain was Cristina Kirchner’s vice-chancellor and played a key role in drafting the memorandum, which is why it is being dealt with as part of the court case investigating this fact.

With the change of management, Zuain convinced Mauricio Macri pursue his diplomatic career in Paraguay and sparked controversy in to ensure that Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is a democratic leader confronted with the global power of the White House.

Close to CFK, he shared his geopolitical strategy during negotiations with Iran and considers Maduro a moving target of the US government due to his ideological perspective of the international system.

As for Zuain, the government has chosen for the Republic of Malta to an ambassador who currently exercises diplomatic functions in Italy. It is Roberto Manuel Carles. Appointed in the middle of last year, the 39-year-old lawyer from Buenos Aires is another of the leaders who are close to Cristina Kirchner, but who also maintains a good dialogue with him. dad Francisco.

In decree 566/2021, the appointment of Carlés as ambassador to the Republic of Malta was formalized on Thursday “Without prejudice to his current functions as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic in the Italian Republic.”

He was born on September 17, 1981 in the city of Morón in Buenos Aires. He obtained a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires with an honorary degree, holds a doctorate in law from the Università degli Studi di Ferrara and is also a doctor of criminal sciences from the University of San Carlos from Guatemala. In addition, he is a specialist in criminal law and criminology, chairs the Committee of Young Criminals of the International Association of Criminal Law and has served as an advisor to the Security Commission of the Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

He was responsible for the Commission for the preparation of the draft law reforming, updating and integrating the Penal Code. This commission was also made up of the national deputy Federico Pinedo (PRO), the jurist and former radical lawmaker Ricardo Gil Lavedra, the former socialist deputy María Elena Barbagelata and the former member of the Court, Raúl Zaffaroni. To advance this process of judicial reform, Carlés met with Pope Francis and discussed the reform of the Penal Code. It was then that Carlés underlined that the Sovereign Pontiff had described the project as “a legal text with a broad consensus of the parties”.

On the other hand, through the Decree 568/2021 the transfer was confirmed “from the Department of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship at the Embassy of the Republic in the Commonwealth of Australia to the Minister Plenipotentiary First Class Maximum Eduardo Gowland”.

Lawyer and diplomat, Gowland was National Director of Antarctic Foreign Policy which operates under the orbit of the portfolio that Solá manages. “As long as the mission entrusted lasts, accredit (Gowland) with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary”, specified the Executive Power.

Finally, the foreign service confirmed in the Decree 565/2021 to the representative of Argentina in Republic of South Africa. This is the Bachelor of Political Science Claudio Pérez Paladino, career diplomat, who, among other functions abroad, was between 2009 and 2015 Ambassador to Romania and the Republic of Moldova. He has held various positions within the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where since January last year he has been Director of Sub-Saharan Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Relations.

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