Ecuadorian Chancellor Maria Fernanda Espinosa.

WASHINGTON, USA.- Ecuadorian Chancellor Maria Fernanda Espinosa was elected president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, UN, at its 73rd session with 126 votes in favor.

Next September, the Latin American diplomat will succeed Slovak Miroslav Lajcak, and become the first woman in the Southern Cone to occupy that position.

The current Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador has more than twenty years of experience, in which she has handled multilateral issues on integration, security, culture, heritage, defense of human rights and those of Indigenous peoples and nationalities.

Maria Fernanda Espinosa was Ambassador of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva and New York, Coordinator Minister of Cultural and Natural Heritage, and Minister of National Defense.