Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Guatemala)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala
— MINEX —
Agency overview
Formed December 27, 1944 (1944-12-27)
Headquarters

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
2da avenida 4-17 zona 10

Guatemala City, Guatemala
14°36′34″N 90°30′49″W / 14.60944°N 90.51361°W / 14.60944; -90.51361
Agency executive
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

References

  1. "Nuestra Historia". Minex. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  2. "Interview with the minister of foreign affairs". Diario de Centroamérica.
  3. "Embajadas de Guatemala en el Mundo". Minex. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  4. "Misiones de Guatemala ante Organismos Internacionales". Minex. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
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