The courtesy visit was also to celebrate the friendship between the two countries.
Borja de Mozota will also meet several other Palau officials, including Mrs. Sandra Pierantozzi, Minister of State and Mrs. Mandy Etpison, Honorary Consul of France.Apart from being the Ambassador of France to Palau, Mr. Borja de Mozota is also the Ambassador of France to the Philippines, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Borja de Mozota began his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with an assignment at the Embassy of France in New Delhi before joining the Office for Asia-Oceania Affairs in Paris. More recently, Mr Borja de Mozota was the Ambassador of France to Brunei.Mr Borja de Mozota was born in Paris in 1948.He holds a bachelor’s degree in international law and a diploma in advanced political science. He was a graduate of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations).The French embassy in a statement said that Borja de Mozota’s career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is “inscribed within the context of public diplomacy.” He was head of the press department at the embassy of France in Italy, coordinator of Protocol at the Presidency of the Republic) and multilateral work relations with the League of Arab States and the Palestine Liberation Organization in Tunis, United Nations and international organizations, head of the department of international conferences, in Paris.Borja de Mozota was also posted in the North Atlantic region namely Washington and Oslo. Recently, he was ministerial representative at the French Ministry of Defense.Member of France’s Ordre National du Mérite and Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur, Borja de Mozota was also conferred national orders of Germany, Spain, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Nepal.
