United Nations_ Ecuadorian Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa was elected as president of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization, UN, at its 73rd session with 126 votes in favor, Radio Reloj publishes.

Next September, the Latin American diplomat will succeed the Slovakian Miroslav Lajcak, and will become the first woman in the southern cone to hold that position and the fourth that presides over the General Assembly, after India's Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1953), the Liberian Angie Brooks (1969) and the bareiní Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa (2006).

The current Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador has over 20 years of experience, in which she has handled multilateral issues of integration, security, culture, heritage, defense of human rights and indigenous peoples and nationalities.

Espinosa was ambassador of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva and in New York, minister coordinator of Cultural and Natural Heritage, and holder of National Defense.

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