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Pacitalia
05-02-2009, 03:08
From PNN.pc
4th February 2009

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Katalin Elixaeberna Bauza will head the government's new
Continental Partnership Office. Prime minister Archetenia Nera
announced Wednesday the 46-year-old lawyer and diplomat will
take charge of Timiocato's liaison with Manhattan and Securitas.


Nera names Elixaeberna Bauza as CPO chief
New office intended to help government streamline its integration efforts with Fidelia, Novus Prosperitas


Manti Soratina Murana in Timiocato

The Directorate of Foreign Affairs' new Continental Partnership Office has its first chief executive.

Pacitalian prime minister Archetenia Nera named 46-year-old immigration lawyer and senior diplomat Katalin Elixaeberna Bauza to the post Wednesday. In her statement, Ms Nera praised her new appointee for over ten years of "exceptional service" in the Directorate of Foreign Affairs.

The new office will be Pacitalia's official point of liaison with Manhattan and Securitas as the countries work towards better integration and stronger partnership in continental affairs.

Ms Bauza has served as senior deputy agustinate of the DFA, the top bureaucratic post within the Directorate, since 2005. She has also served as chair of the Directorate's Ambassadorial Appointments Standing Committee (AASC) for six years. The committee appoints and recalls Pacitalian ambassadors to posts around the world based on the advice of the sitting agustinate. Ms Bauza has also led the Diplomatic Policy Steering Committee (DPSC) for four years and was the Pacitalian ambassador to the Second Empire of the Golden Throne from 1998 to 2003, serving at the Republic's embassy in Fedala.

Before that, Ms Bauza worked as an immigration lawyer in Cerignola, primarily assisting ethnic Basque migrants in their legal transition to life in Pacitalia. She is a zaindari, or keeper, of the Errepublikako Euskaldunak Elkartea (Republican Ethnic Basque Society), an appointed, honourary position with no pay. Ms Bauza has been a member of the EEE since the 1970s.

EEE chairman Beñat Burrieza hailed the appointment as a "significant step forward for Euskaldunak in Pacitalia". Mr Burrieza also noted the encouraging recent development of inclusion of two ethnically Basque lawmakers in Ms Nera's government. Izaskun Arrúnategui is the agustinate of public safety and security and Iker Ruiberriz is the chancellor of the republic for migrants and minorities. Mr Ruiberriz has worked closely in the past with Ms Bauza.

"Basques are taking leading roles in government and public administration with a single end goal — the betterment of this great republic," Mr Burrieza said. "We, as Basques and as Pacitalians, should be proud of this milestone."

But Ms Nera and Ms Bauza both downplayed the ethnic significance of the appointment, with the prime minister choosing instead to praise the new head of the Continental Partnership Office as an "outstanding and exemplary contributor to Pacitalian society, and recently, to the administration and execution of the republic's affairs both in and out of the country."

Ms Bauza said she was "humbled and honoured" to be leading Pacitalia's official efforts at further political and economic integration with its northern neighbours. Elaboration of 2007's New Sydney Agreement between Pacitalia and Fidelia, she noted, "is the cornerstone to further development of our trilateral relationship".

Pacitalian and Fidelia government officials continue to press ahead with bilateral integration in the wake of the crisis north of the border last year. But Ms Bauza noted that there remains "justified concern" about Novus Prosperitas' readiness to be a viable continental partner.

"I understand completely that part of my job will be to extend help to Securitas where they request it or need it," Ms Bauza said. "Any integration of our northeastern neighbours into a continental union should be with the understanding and agreement that they be a full and equal member in the partnership, and not a subjugate of Timiocato and Manhattan. That is not beneficial or sustainable."

Prosperitan prime minister Simon Dwyer dissolved parliament Tuesday, setting the stage for national elections on the 7th March. The direction integration efforts take, if any at all, will surely depend on which party forms government. The incumbent Social Democratic Party has been seen as indecisive and uncommitted to integration, with the main opposition Libertas Party being much more strongly in favour of formal continental integration.