On Thursday, June 22, Gilles Tonelli, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, hosted a luncheon at the Hermitage Hotel for a clutch of new ambassadors to Monaco.
The four new ambassadors are: HE Qëndrim Gashi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kosovo; HE Petr Drulak, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic; HE Dr Khalid Bin Rashid Salem Al-Mansouri, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar and HE Guillaume Dighiero Arrarte, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uruguay.
In the morning the four diplomats presented their credentials to HSH the Sovereign Prince.
HE Qëndrim Gashi is the Founder of the Kosovo Mathematical Society. In 2011, he was appointed Foreign Affairs Advisor to the President of the Republic, and subsequently became a member of the Board of Directors of Pro Credit Kosovo Bank, the Kosovo American Education Fund, and the Council of State on Quality.
After several years at the Institute of International Relations in 2004, HE Petr Drulak joined the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2014, where he served as Deputy Minister, Political Secretary and Director of the Minister’s Office.
HE Dr Khalid Bin Rashid Salem Al-Mansouri joined Qatar’s Consular Affairs Directorate in 1987 and the Information and Research Directorate in 1998, where he moved up the ranks before being appointed Acting Director in 2001. He then served successively as Defence Coordinator, Director of European and American Affairs, Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Director of European Affairs.
Doctor of Medicine, Science and Human Biology, HE Guillaume Dighiero Arrarte pursues a scientific and medical curriculum, notably as Director of Research at the CNRS in 1992, Head of the Department of Pathophysiology and then Executive Director of the Institut Pasteur. He was promoted to Ambassador in 2015. He is the founder of the Uruguayan Society of Haematology.