Brussels, 08/12/2014 (Agence Europe) - Elisabeth Guigou, former French minister and current leader of the foreign affairs committee at the French National Assembly, has been appointed president of the Euro-Mediterranean Anna Lindh cultural foundation from next February. The decision was announced on Friday, following a meeting in Barcelona of the committee of high-level officials in the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue (which represents 43 member countries). The choice for an executive director, which has been under discussion for months, still remains to be made. The same high-level officials also agreed to extend the mandate of the current secretary general of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Fathallah Sijilmassi. (FB)