“Uruguay is concerned about finding a path towards democracy,” said Foreign Minister Paganini.
Omar Paganini defended the appointment of the ambassador to Venezuela to maintain the bilateral relationship with the people of that country.
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The chancellor Omar Paganini justified the appointment of the brand new ambassador to Venezuela, Silvana Montes de Oca, by highlighting that it is “convenient and necessary” to support the diplomatic relations with that country.
Paganini admitted at a press conference that he asked Montes de Oca to “closely follow” the situation in the country he governs. Nicolás Maduro, after the tension between Uruguay and the Caribbean nation for the arrest of the historic anti-Chavista leader María Corina Machado, main opponent facing the elections.
Along these lines, the chancellor returned to the position that “Uruguay has diplomatic relations with the people of Venezuela and the Venezuelan State, not strictly with the government.”
That is why he considered that “it is good to maintain a presence there, in addition to the fact that we have compatriots there” and defined: “A Uruguay you are worried that Venezuela find a path of opening towards democracy.”
The new ambassador is a career diplomat
When asked about the appointment of a career diplomat as Oca Mountains, Paganini considered that this “is normal” and said that the goal is “to give continuity to the situation, in a special year like this,” in reference to the questioned elections in that country.
It is that Montes de Oca, last step through the Artigas Institute of Foreign Service, She has extensive experience, becoming coordinator of the international agenda in the National Directorate of Climate Change of the Ministry of Environment between 2022 and 2023.
Previously, in 2021-2022 she was Minister Counselor and Consul General of the Republic at the Embassy of Uruguay in Chili and he held that same position in the city of Toronto Canada, between 2013 and 2018.
Montes de Oca, who has a PhD in Law and Social Sciences and a Public Notary, in both cases graduated from Udelar, was also part of the Uruguayan embassy in Washington between 2006 and 2011.
Source: Ambito
