Brussels, 04/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Spanish diplomat Fernando Martin Valenzuela Marzo was nominated by the European Commission as deputy Director General for External Relations, responsible for Common Foreign and Security Policy. A communiqué by the Commission indicates that, in this function, he will be "the Commission's Political Director", representing it at the Council's Political Committee. He will supervise the work by the three directorate responsible for political and security affairs, multilateral affairs and relations with North America, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
Mr. Valenzuela Marzo, who is presently Spain's co-ordinator for the stability pact for South Eastern Europe, at 52 and was in particular the Special representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the UN preventative deployment force in the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Ambassador of Spain to Canada, Ambassador - Permanent representative of Spain to the UN (in Geneva) and President and CEO of the Spanish development agency.