STATEMENT BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY ON SPANISH EMBASSY

With reference to reports appearing in the media last week, relating to the statement made by the Leader of the Opposition, Dr E Fenech Adami, regarding the re-appointment of a Maltese Ambassador to Spain when a Nationalist Government is in power, the Ministry wishes to inform that Malta still has an Ambassador accredited to Spain, but who is not resident in Spain.

Mr Vincent Camilleri presented his credentials as Malta’s Ambassador to Spain on the 12th of November, 1997, and is resident in Paris.  The Embassy in Madrid is fully functional with a resident Charge d’Affaires.

It has also to be pointed out that it took the previous Nationalist Government six and  a half years, after it was elected, to decide on appointing a resident Maltese Ambassador to Spain, in spite of Spain having had a resident Ambassador in Malta already since many years.