by After the private audience between Javier Milei and Pope Francis, this Monday morning in Rome, it is assumed that finally a career diplomat was appointed ambassador before the Vatican.
This is Luis Pablo Beltramino, who Until now he was ambassador to Vietnam. Chancellor Diana Mondino did not want to reveal her name until she had requested stylistic approval from the Vatican Secretariat of State for Beltramino. Many names circled around this mission, which is always very important for the government in power, and even more so since the Argentine Jorge Bergoglio is the head of the Catholic Church.
Mondino is in Rome with the Chief of Staff of the Chancellery, Federico Barttfeld.
Since the departure of the former ambassador of the Kirchner government, María Fernanda Silva, a few days ago, the headquarters was under the command of Sofía Sánchez Acosta. All diplomats.
Meanwhile, at the Italian Embassy, also a career ambassador, was appointed Marcelo Giusto. In that mission, the bilateral one in Rome, Giusto will replace the ambassador of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner, the lawyer Roberto Carlés.
Who is Beltramino?
Lawyer graduated from the Argentine Catholic University, Beltramino was private secretary of the foreign ministers Guido Di Tella and Adalberto Rodríguez Giavarini.
He has been a foreign service official since 1991, so, unlike ambassadors who are of political origin, It does not need to go through the Senate for its document to be approved.
Abroad he served as liaison with the US Congress at the Argentine Embassy to the United States. He also for the Consulate General and the Promotion Center in New York; at the Embassy in the Netherlands.
He fulfilled other internal functions in the Foreign Ministry. And until now he was Ambassador to Vietnam, so his departure there creates a vacancy in this Asian position with which Argentina has important bilateral trade.
Beltramino has several publications on foreign policy issues. active member of the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI), which is today chaired by Francisco de Santibañes.
Beltramino is married and has three children.
