Colombia turns down resignation of ambassador to UN
The Colombian government refused Wednesday to accept the resignation of
its ambassador to the United Nations, Maria Holguin, who has been
accused of nepotism.
Last Monday, the diplomat presented her resignation to President Alvaro
Uribe, but the head of State and Foreign Minister Carolina Barco decided
not to accept it.
The presentation of Holguin's resignation occurred after it was
denounced through local media that the children of three ex-presidents
of the Senate had been appointed as advisers or attaches in the Embassy
to the United Nations, and that soon the daughter of another former
legislators was going to be appointed.
Holguin, who was ambassador to Venezuela until 2004, was vice foreign
minister from 1994 to 1998.
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