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By Trend
Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro on Saturday named Alvaro
Leyva Duran as the foreign minister in his cabinet, ahead of
Petro's inauguration in August, Trend reports citing Xinhua .
'Alvaro Leyva Duran will be our minister of foreign affairs. It
will be a chancellery of peace,' Petro tweeted, adding that
Colombia will focus its efforts on overcoming the climate crisis
and ending endemic violence.
Leyva Duran, 79, has served as a mines and energy minister, a
congressman from the Conservative Party, and a mediator in the
country's peace process, among other positions.
He played a major role in building the justice model of the
Special Jurisdiction for Peace, which was created within the peace
agreement signed between the Colombian government and the former
guerrilla movement of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in
2016.
Besides Leyva Duran, Petro has appointed his vice president
Francia Marquez to create a Ministry of Equality.
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