A VETERAN diplomat who recently served as the country’s ambassador to Chile was named yesterday as the spokesperson of the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo said Ma. Teresita “Tess” Daza, is fully qualified to take the post, considering her experience.
“The new DFA spokesperson, Ambassador Tess Daza, is a distinguished career diplomat who brings with her nearly three decades’ worth of experience in diplomacy and public service,” Manalo said, adding he is glad to have Daza on his team.
Daza promised to facilitate the timely sharing of information on the DFA and the country’s embassies and consulates as well as issues affecting the country’s relations with other countries.
“I personally feel that you play a very important role not only in terms of disseminating or sharing the DFA narrative in terms of policy, its services, and programs but more than that you ensure that the country becomes a better, a more open, a more inclusive, a more enlightened society,” Daza said.
Daza was appointed as ambassador to Chile in 2019 after her previous stint as ambassador to India, with concurrent jurisdiction over Nepal.
Before that, Daza also served as Deputy Permanent Representative at the Permanent Mission of the country to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia from 2009 to 2013.
She also served in the country’s embassies in Malaysia and Romania.
Daza had previously served at the DFA main office — in the Economic Diplomacy Unit of the Office of the Secretary and the Office of Protocol and Asean Affairs.
