The Association of Officials of the Uruguayan Foreign Service (Afuseu) asked the government for “concrete measures” that “aim to offer greater guarantees” to those who are in charge of consular offices, after the prosecutor Gabriela Fossati accused the Uruguayan ex-consul in Moscow, Stefano Di Conza, for 14 repeated fraud offenses in the Astesiano case.
The union also called for the continuation strengthening training provided to Foreign Service officers in consular matteras stated in a statement released this Friday.
In that document, officials underline “the importance of the task they perform every day” who are in charge of a consular office. These workers, they add, respond “to the demands and requests of compatriots abroad and perform their duties responsibly, ethically and diligently”, they asserted.
Finally, they also rejected the “repeated occasions” in which the names and personal data of foreign service officials “are disseminated in the media and social networks through information that is false, incomplete or distorted”. Likewise, by “prejudging”, these reports “discredit both the person and the profession and institution as a whole,” Afuseu insisted in the statement.
According to Fossati’s justification, Di Conza was part of the gang that Astesiano had to forge Uruguayan passports for Russian citizens.
