The former chancellor Laura Sarabia It will be the New Colombian ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This is evidenced after the publication of your resume on the Presidency’s applicants portal.
While the version that Sarabia would arrive at the said embassy began to circulate since last August, The official publication of your resume suggests that your appointment is imminent and that your designation is already in process.
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Considered one of the most important records of the administration of President Gustavo Petro, Sarabia left the Foreign Ministry Last July in the midst of differences with the Head of State by the tender for the elaboration of passports.
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In his renunciation letter, published on July 3, Sarabia wrote that the Executive was making decisions and directions that he did not share, which is why he left his functions as chancellor.
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“It is not about minor differences or who is right. It is a direction that, with all the affection and respect that I have, it is no longer possible for me to execute“, read in the letter addressed to the Head of State.
Specifically, the former Minister of Foreign Relations referred to the president’s decisions against the contract with the Thomas Greg & Sons company. While the former chancellor had decreed a new urgency to prolong the contract with the current passport provider (which expired on August 31), President Petro disappointed his decision indicating that the elaboration of the documents should remain in the hands of the National Printing and the Portugal Currency House As of September 1.
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His departure was also in the midst of discussions with the then office chief Alfredo Saadeinvestigated by the Attorney General’s Office, to whom he is told if he had assumed functions that corresponded to the Foreign Ministry in the issue of passports.
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“The control entity investigates alleged undue behaviors that Alfredo Saade would have assumed to press the signing of the agreement between the National Printing and Portugal for the manufacture and supply of passports“said the Attorney General’s Office in a statement.
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