The Cos Consular of Barcelona has elected its new executive committee at the assembly held this Wednesday, March 20, by the Col·legi d’Advocats of Barcelona. The new executive of the organization has been elected unanimously.
Thus, the new Executive Committee is formed as follows: Artem Vorobyov, Consul General of Ukraine, as Dean; Rossana Cecilia Surballe, Consul General of Argentina, as first vice dean; Benito Miró Castells, Consul General of El Salvador, as first vice dean; Yosef David Sánchez-Molina Rubín, Honorary Consul of the State of Israel, as second vice dean and Secretary General; Francisco Javier Ruiz Gil, Honorary Consul General of Finland, as Head of Institutional Relations, and Francisco A. Granero, Honorary Consul General of Monaco, as Treasurer.
As members, there are Tsvetelin Tsolov, Consul General of Bulgaria; Alexander Chkuaseli, Consul General of Georgia; Patricio Javier Garcés Ramírez, Consul General of the Republic of Ecuador; Claudia Artemiza Pavlovich, Consul General of Mexico; Enrique Juan Delgado Genta, Consul General of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; Pere Vicens Rahola, Honorary Consul General of Uzbekistan; Ricardo Tobar Pascual, Honorary Consul of Latvia; Susana Ferrer Delgadillo, Honorary Consul of Ireland, and Javier Pérez Farguell, Honorary Consul of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
The Executive Committee of the Consular Cos is the body that ensures the free exercise of consular representation and coordination among its members, and is elected every two years. Barcelona currently has 98 consulates and is the third city in the world with the most legislation of this type, after New York and Hong Kong.
The work of the Cos Consular is to promote economic and cultural exchanges as well as protect in the receiving state the interests of the state that sends the Consul and its nationals; promote friendly relations and commercial, economic, cultural and scientific cooperation; report the situation and evolution of events in the receiving state; provide protection and assistance to nationals; provide assistance to ships and aircraft, and also to their crews as well as registry and notarial functions.
