The Panamanian National Council on Foreign Relations "Consejo Nacional de Relaciones Exteriores" or CONAREX is a consultation body of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The council was created under the Law 28 of 1999 under the government of
Ricardo Martinelli
Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Berrocal (born March 11, 1951) is a Panamanian politician and businessman who was the 36th President of Panama, president of Panama from 2009 to 2014.
Early life
Born in Panama City, Ricardo Martinelli is the son ...
of
Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
. The members serve pro bono and are appointed by the Executive and convenes tri-annually, or "when is convened extraordinarily". The first council was installed November 19, 2009, when Vice President
Juan Carlos Varela
Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez (; born 13 December 1963) is a Panamanian businessman and former politician who served as the President of Panama from 2014 to 2019.
Varela was Vice President of Panama from 2009 to 2014, and Minister of Foreign ...
, served as foreign minister.
Foreign Minister Nunez Fabrega said one of the members resigned in 2013 due to the
North Korea Ship Seizure but would not name them.
1999- Members
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Rafael E. Bárcenas Perez
2009-2014 Members
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José Miguel Alemán
José Miguel Alemán Healy (born 8 May 1956, in Panama City) is a Panamanian politician.
He spent a significant part of his childhood living in Washington, DC while his father, Roberto Alemán Zubieta, was serving as one of the leading negotiato ...
Healy
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Víctor S. Azrak
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Rafael E. Bárcenas Perez
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Navin Bhakta
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Alejandro Blanco
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Aníbal Galindo Navarro
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Emanuel González-Revilla Jurado
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William Liberman (Guillermo)
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Guido J. Martinelli Endara
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Jurgen Mossack
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Stanley Alberto Motta Cunningham
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Janet Poll Sarlabous
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Nicholas Psychoyos Tagaropulos
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Isabel St. Malo de Alvarado
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Taher Yaafar Chahine
Secretary :
Tomás A. Guardia
2014-2016 Members
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Alejandro Blanco
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Alberto Alemán Zubieta
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Alexandra Castro
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Álvaro Tomas
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Anabella de Rubinoff
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Emanuel González Revilla Jurado
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Irene Perurena
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Isaac Btesh
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Janet Poll Sarlabous
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Marcel Salamín
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Joseph E. Harari
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José Miguel Alemán
José Miguel Alemán Healy (born 8 May 1956, in Panama City) is a Panamanian politician.
He spent a significant part of his childhood living in Washington, DC while his father, Roberto Alemán Zubieta, was serving as one of the leading negotiato ...
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Ramón Morales
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Ricardo Alberto Arias
Ricardo Alberto Arias (born September 11, 1940, Panama City, Panama) was the Panamanian Ambassador to the United Nations, serving from 2004 to 2009. He is also a founding member and partner of Galindo, Arias and Lopez law firm, and is a member of ...
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Sabrina Bacal
* Stanley Motta
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Taher Yaafar
Notable members
Jürgen Mossack
Jürgen Rolf Dieter Mossack (born 20 March 1948) is a German-born Panamanian lawyer and the co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, a former law firm headquartered in Panama City which had more than 40 offices worldwide. The firm gained global notoriety ...
served the council from 2009 to 2014. On April 7th, 2016 it was announced that he was resigning after the
Panama Papers
The Panama Papers ( es, Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 ...
leak.
References
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Organizations based in Panama
Foreign relations of Panama