Accreditation of the Ambassador of France to Monaco

Voir la photo - Photo Caption: H.S.H. the Sovereign Prince with Serge Telle, Minister of State, on the left, andH.E. Mr. Laurent Stefanini, the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to Monaco. ©Government Communication Department/Stéphane Danna.

Photo Caption: H.S.H. the Sovereign Prince with Serge Telle, Minister of State, on the left, andH.E. Mr. Laurent Stefanini, the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to Monaco. ©Government Communication Department/Stéphane Danna.

On Thursday 19 September 2019, H.E. Mr. Laurent Stefanini, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to Monaco, who presented his Letters of Credence to H.S.H. Prince Albert II in the morning, was received by the Minister of State, Serge Telle, at his residence, for a lunch presided over by the Sovereign.

H.E. Mr. Laurent Stefanini is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies. He joined the central administration in 1985, where he was appointed delegate in the capacity of Deputy Director of the Environment and Sectoral Cooperation and Advisor for Religious Affairs.

During his career, H.E. Mr. Stefanini also served as First Counsellor at the Holy See in Rome from 2001 to 2005, as Ambassador for the Environment, Senior Official for Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs from 2006 to 2010, and Head of Protocol and Introducer of Ambassadors from 2010 to 2016. He was promoted to Ambassador, Permanent Representative to UNESCO in 2016.