Vanessa Frazier has been appointed Malta's ambassador in Italy.

She presented her credentials to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale Palace in Rome.

The "excellent bilateral relations" between the two countries, preaprations for Italy's Presidency of the EU, the European economic situation and common challenges, particularly irregular migration, were discussed.

President Napolitano also recalled his state visit to Malta in 2010.

Ambassador Frazier joined the Diplomatic Corps in 1994 and served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as desk officer for the US and the Americas and later in the Mediterranean Department. She was posted to the Maltese embassies in Washington, Rome, London and Brussels.

She held the post of director of the Defence Matters Directorate within the Office of the Prime Minister consolidating Malta’s response to the Arab Spring and most particularly the crises in Libya.

She was appointed Ambassador for Immigration and later acting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She most recently served in Brussels as Ambassador of Malta to Belgium, Luxembourg and NATO.

 

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