Diplomacy: new Ambassadors accredited Slovakia – Venezuela – Romania – Belgium

On Tuesday, March 12th, Mrs. Isabelle BERRO AMADEÏ, Government Counselor Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, received during a luncheon organized at the Hermitage Hotel, H.E. Mr. Jan SOTH, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Slovak Republic, H.E. Mr. Arturo Enrique GIL PINTO, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, H.E. Mrs. Ioana BIVOLARU, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Romania, and H.E. Mr. Jo INDEKEU, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Belgium.

These diplomats presented their letters of credence to H.S.H. the Sovereign Prince in the morning.

Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, H.E. Mr. Jan SOTH began his career at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia in Prague in 1984. In 1993, he was appointed First Secretary-Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Romania, Bucharest before taking over as Director of the Europe Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava. From 1995 to 1999, he served as Diplomatic Counselor-Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in France, Paris. Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to Romania and Moldova from 2002 to 2007, as well as to Italy, Malta, and the Republic of San Marino from 2015 to 2021, he also held the position of Secretary-General of the Cabinet of the President of the Slovak Republic from 2012 to 2015.

With a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Central University of Venezuela and a doctorate in automation and microelectronics (University of Sciences and Techniques of Languedoc-Montpellier), H.E. Mr. Arturo Enrique GIL PINTO has extensive experience in the field of engineering. Vice-Minister for Infrastructure Management at the Ministry of Transportation and Communications from 2010 to 2012, he has also been a lecturer at the Central University of Venezuela since 1998. Between 2018 and 2023, he served as Ad Hoc Charge d’Affaires of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the Republic of Korea.

Graduated from the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, and the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest, H.E. Mrs. Ioana BIVOLARU also holds a master’s degree in European administrative and political studies from the College of Europe in Bruges. A career diplomat, she has over 25 years of experience in diplomacy and European affairs. She was a member of the National Delegation for the negotiation of Romania’s accession to the European Union (2001-2003), and subsequently of the national team that contributed to the negotiation and drafting of the Treaty of Accession of Romania to the EU (2005-2006). She has carried out several missions, as a diplomat, at the Romanian Embassies in Rome, The Hague, Helsinki, and, between 2007 and 2012, at the Permanent Representation of Romania to the EU in Brussels. She was also Director-General of the EU Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012-2016). From 2016 to 2023, she served as Ambassador of Romania to Portugal.