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The mayor of Cartagena, José López, received this Wednesday, March 22, the consul general of the Republic of Colombia in Valencia, Felipe Carreño, who has informed him about the work that will perform the mobile unit of the Consulate to be installed In Cartagena the next 28, 29 and 30 of April.
The mobile consulate is a vehicle that travels to municipalities that have a large number of Colombian residents, where it provides service in an accessible way to those citizens who must carry out consular procedures.
In this way, the consulate will allow Colombians in the area to take steps such as issuing passports, citizenship cards, identity cards, civil registration or different notarial acts.
For any additional information that may be required by Colombian citizens, Carreño explained, the Colombian consulate in Valencia has a website with a specific link to the mobile consulate service.
The Colombian mobile consulate will be installed in Cartagena from 9 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 7 pm.
The location has yet to be defined, but the consul has expressed the willingness of both sides to seek a place "equidistant in accessibility and security to offer the best service possible."
Thus, the diplomat, after finishing the meeting with the first mayor, has attended the media to "thank the opportunity provided to serve the nationals through the mobile consulate."
Only in the municipality of Cartagena is estimated that about 5,000 Colombians reside.
Finally, Felipe Carrreño has shown his satisfaction to take this management vehicle to the Colombian community of Cartagena, which he has described as a "beautiful and historic city that has much to show" and has assured that "they have made us feel as House, in a sister city of Cartagena de Indias ".
And, the meeting has served to highlight the municipal will to strengthen the ties of collaboration between both institutions.
FELIPE CARREÑO, COUNSEL OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA IN VALENCIA
Felipe Carreño carries out his diplomatic work at the Consulate of Colombia in Valencia.
He is a lawyer and took up his position as consul general on February 3, 2014. He has experience in the public administrative sector in the State's highest fiscal control body, the National Comptroller's Office, and in the dependent entity of the Public Prosecutor's Office Which has a control function on the management of municipalities and decentralized entities, the Municipal Personería, as well as in municipal legal advice.
Likewise, the current consul general of Colombia in Valencia served for more than 10 years positions of public representation as councilman and deputy in the Department of Meta, a central region of the country with capital in Villavicencio.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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