The governments of the Czech Republic and Panama granted their agrément to the appointments of Rodrigo Gaete Vidal and Flavio Tarsetti Quezada as Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Chile to those countries, respectively.
Until now, Rodrigo Gaete had served as Deputy Director General of Bilateral Affairs at the Foreign Ministry. He studied political science and public management at Universidad de Chile and graduated from the Andrés Bello Diplomatic Academy in 1977. Later, he studied Foreign Trade at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and American Foreign Policy at John Hopkins University, in Washington D.C., United States.
The new representative of Chile to the Czech Republic has been Ambassador in Kenya, where he also served as Non-Resident Ambassador to Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania. He was also Chile’s permanent representative to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and to the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT). He was also the first Permanent Representative of Chile to the African Union.
The new Chief of Mission in the Czech Republic has served at the Chilean embassies in Canada, Brazil, and the United States, a post where he played a fundamental role in the negotiations of the bilateral free trade agreement.
Additionally, Ambassador Gaete was Chile’s General Coordinator of the First Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and the European Union (CELAC –EU), held in Santiago last January.
Rodrigo Gaete is also Director of the Fulbright Commission of the Educational Exchange between Chile and the United States and Director of the Chile Fund against Hunger and Poverty.
New Ambassador in Panama
Flavio Tarsetti, in turn, who assumes duties as Ambassador of Chile for the first time, was serving until his appointment as Director of South America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The new Ambassador to Panama is an agronomist from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and graduated from the Andrés Bello Diplomatic Academy in 1980. He also pursued studies at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., United States.
Within the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Tarsetti has worked as a member of the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and at the Directorate General of Foreign Policy. In his posts abroad, he served as Alternate Representative of Chile’s Mission to the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) and fulfilled duties at our embassies in the United States, Argentina and Uruguay.