Madrid, Spain
the new ones Honduran ambassadors to Spain, María Dolores Agüero, and of Uruguay, Teresa Ayala, delivered this Friday their credentials to Felipe VI as a last step to be able to exercise their position fully.
As usual after this ceremony, held at the Royal Palace of Madrid, each ambassador held with the king a brief meeting to exchange views on the state of their respective countries’ bilateral relations with Spain.
Agüero was appointed head of the Honduran legation in Madrid last September, after having been ambassador to Washington and having been chancellor between 2016 and 2019.
On the other hand, Ayala was designated ambassador of Uruguay in 1945 Spain last July by the chancellor of his country, Francisco Bustillo, who had occupied the Uruguayan legation in Spain since 2012, and before his appointment he served as “number three” of the Chancellery during the previous management of Government, as he served as Director General.
At the ceremony held at the Royal Palace and marked by measures against the coronavirus, the king of Spain also receive the accreditations of five other new diplomatic representatives, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya.
The new ambassadors arrived at the Royal Palace by car escorted by the Royal Guard on horseback from the nearby Palau de Santa Creu, headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and not in the traditional period floats, as usual, due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. EFE