Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Guatemala)
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| Formed | December 27, 1944 |
| Headquarters | Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores 2da avenida 4-17 zona 10 Guatemala City, Guatemala Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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| Website | MINEX |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala is the executive office in charge of conducting the international relations of the country. This ministry can give the Guatemalan nationality, enforces the immigration laws of the country, preserves the national limits and boundaries, negotiates international treaties and agreements with other countries and preserves the copies of the ones signed by Guatemala. It is appointed by law to preserve the national interests overseas and to be part of the National Security System.
Background and History
Starting in the 19th century, right after independence from Spain was signed, the public administration was slowly organized. There was a first stage when Guatemala was a part of the United Provinces of Central America, and a second stage starting in 1847, when Guatemala became an independent, free and sovereign republic to administer its own public affairs. Through that time, the different executive offices were organized as "secretariats", following the Spanish nomenclature. This terminology included the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, which kept its name until after the Revolution of 1944. Decree #47, passed by the Revolutionary Joint on December 27, 1944, still used this category. However, when the new Constitution came into force on March 15, 1945, the Constitutional system created the Ministries of State. For that reason, Congress passed a bill for the organization of the Executive Branch, which first spoke of a Foreign Affairs Ministry, on April 25, 1945.[1]
Foreign Affairs
Currently, Guatemala holds diplomatic relations with 152 countries. It has 37 embassies throughout the World, and 4 missions in International Organizations. It plans to open two more in 2014, in India and Australia.[2]
| Embassy [3] | Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary |
| Belgium | Jorge Skinner-Klee Arenales |
| Holy See | Alfonso Roberto José Matta Fahsen |
| Argentina | Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado |
| Belice | Manuel Arturo Téllez Miralda |
| Brasil | Julio Armando Martini Herrera |
| Canada | Rita Claverie de Sciolli |
| Chile | Guisela Atalida Godínez Sazo |
| Colombia | Manlio Fernando Sesenna Olivero |
| South Korea | Gustavo Adolfo López Calderón |
| Costa Rica | Héctor Rolando Palacios Lima |
| Cuba | Juan León Alvarado |
| Ecuador | Irma Rebeca Monzón Rojas |
| Egypt | Lars Henrik Pira Pérez |
| Netherlands | Jorge Alfredo Lemcke Arévalo |
| United Kingdom | Acisclo Domingo Valladares Molina |
| El Salvador | Luis Rolando Torres Casanova |
| Spain | Carla María Rodríguez Mancia |
| United States of America | José Julio Alejandro Ligorría Carballido |
| France | Marco Tulio Gustavo Chicas Sosa |
| Honduras | Hugo René Hemmerling González |
| India | Georges de la Roche du Ronzet Plihal |
| Israel | Alfredo Vásquez Rivera |
| Japan | Byron René Escobedo Menéndez |
| Russia | Herbert Estuardo Meneses Coronado |
| Austria | Antonio Roberto Castellanos López |
| Germany | Carlos Humberto Jiménez Licona |
| Italy | Stephanie Hochstetter Skinner-Klee |
| Mexico | Fernando Andrade Díaz-Durán |
| Nicaragua | Héctor Darío Gularte Estrada |
| Norway | Jacobo Cuyun Salguero |
| Panama | Anamaría Diéguez Arévalo |
| Peru | Gabriel Edgardo Aguilera Peralta |
| Dominican Republic | Alejandro José Buitrón Porras |
| Sweden | Jorge Ricardo Putzeys Urigüen |
| Taiwan | Arturo Romeo Duarte Ortiz |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Geovani René Castillo Polanco |
| Uruguay | Roberto Leva Rapela |
| Venezuela | Erick Roberto Molina Sandoval |
| Mission [4] | Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary |
| OAS | José María Argueta Cifuentes |
| WTO | |
| UN (New York) | Gert Rosenthal |
| UN (Geneva) | José Francisco Villagrán de León |
