Diplomacy: accreditation of new ambassadors from Uruguay – Colombia – Holy See – Angola

From left to right: H.E. Monseigneur Martin Krebs, Apostolic Nuncio; H.E. Ms Guilhermina Prata, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Angola; Ms Isabelle Berro-Amadei, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; H.E. Mr Hernando Alfonso Prada Gil, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Colombia; H.E. Mr Jorge Luis Jure Arnoletti, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. © Stéphane Danna – Government Communication Department

On Wednesday 18 September 2024, at a lunch held at the Hotel Hermitage, Ms Isabelle Berro-Amadei, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, received H.E. Mr Jorge Luis Jure Arnoletti, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; H.E. Mr Hernando Alfonso Prada Gil, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Colombia; H.E. Monseigneur Martin Krebs, Apostolic Nuncio; and H.E. Ms Guilhermina Prata, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Angola.

The diplomats presented their credentials to H.S.H. the Sovereign Prince during the morning.

H.E. Mr Jorge Luis Jure Arnoletti began his diplomatic career in 1978 and became Consul and Head of the Consulate General in New York in 1982 and 1985. In 1990, he was appointed Counsellor at the Embassy to the United Kingdom in London and in 1998 he was named Minister at the Embassy in France. He received his first ambassadorial assignment in 2007, to Lebanon and Cyprus, before becoming Ambassador to Nicaragua in 2016. In 2020, he became Uruguay’s Ambassador to France, and was also accredited to the Principality of Monaco and Algeria. Jorge Luis Jure Arnoletti also holds a doctorate in diplomacy from the University of the Republic in Uruguay.

H.E. Mr Hernando Alfonso Prada Gil is a lawyer who holds postgraduate degrees in constitutional law, philosophy of law and theory of law, fields in which he taught at the Universidad Libre for more than 20 years.

In 2017 and 2018, President Juan Manuel Santos appointed him as Secretary-General to the President of the Republic.

In August 2022, President Gustavo Petro appointed him as Minister of the Interior, a post he occupied until April 2023 when he was named Colombia’s Ambassador to France.

H.E. Monseigneur Martin Krebs, Apostolic Nuncio was ordained as a priest in Rome in 1983, before becoming assistant priest in Duisburg, Germany. After obtaining his doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1991, he was appointed to various apostolic nuncio posts around the world. He obtained his episcopal ordination in 2008 in Essen, Germany, and became the Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea and Mali the same year, and then to New Zealand and ten Pacific nations between 2013 and 2018. Following a tour of duty in Uruguay from 2018 to 2021, Monseigneur Krebs was then accredited to Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Monaco.

H.E. Ms Guilhermina Prata holds two master’s degrees in legal, political and economic sciences and accordingly began her career as a senior civil servant in 1985, as Director of the Office of Legal Affairs. In 1992, she was elected as a member of the Angola National Assembly for the first time. In 2008, she was appointed as Minister of Justice, a post she occupied until 2012 when she was named President of the Committee of Constitutional and Legal Affairs at the National Assembly in Luanda. Guilhermina Prata was appointed as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Angola to France in 2023.