Diiplomats must have a solid political experience --- Thank you Amb. Rana. Your impressions are very useful for the work that we carry out both within our MFAs and Embassies and Consulates around the world. I take note of the lack of interest that some Ambassadors may have in certain regions to carry out the economic promotion work. In the case of Mexico, I would like to highlight, to my own surprise, that those Ambassadors working in African and Asian countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and South Korea to mention just a few, are recognized for their efforts in promoting economic diplomacy. What they need, taking into account your experience is to reinforce their positions with highly experienced diplomats and generalists in politics who can contribute to the economic diplomatic machinery of the MFA’s General Directorate of Global Economic Impulse (DGIEG), hand in hand with the Ministry of Economy. I was posted in Paris from 2010 to 2015 as Chargée d’Affaires Politiques, there was and Ambassador obsessed at that time for political analysis and Florence Cassez case created a serious dispute between Mexico and France (2011). At that time economic work was absent from the Ambassador’s agenda, so ProMexico profited from this to concentrate economic power in its hands, and we never heard anything interesting about that work at the Embassy. Nowadays I haven’t seen a lot of changes, hope the political-economic binomial that you recommend will bear fruit there in the short term.

Source author: Cecilia Treemonisha Barros Ruiz cbarros@sre.gob.mx