Foreign Minister Paet Opened Estonian Honorary Consulate in Geneva

03.03.2010

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Foreign Minister Urmas Paet opened the Estonian Honorary Consulate in Geneva on Wednesday, 3 March. The new Estonian honorary consul in Geneva is Matteo Inaudi.

According to Foreign Minister Urmas Paet, relations between Estonia and Switzerland are very good but there is room for improvement in economic relations. “The opening of the honorary consulate will give us an opportunity to further intensify Estonia-Switzerland relations in the economic, educational and cultural realms. As a lawyer specialising in the financial sector and banking, Estonia’s new honorary consul can help our entrepreneurs with matters of interest to them in Geneva,” said Paet. “Our new honorary consul can also help to promote contact between Estonia and Switzerland’s francophone cultural spaces,” he added. Estonia has two honorary consulates in Switzerland.

The new Estonian honorary consul’s consular region is Genève, Neuchâtel, Jura, Fribourg, Vaud ja Valais. The honorary consulate is located at 5 avenue Léon-Gaud, 1206 Geneva, Switzerland. The honorary consulate can be reached by phone at +41 (0) 22 839 70 00, fax at +41 (0) 22 839 70 07, or email at the address minaudi@avocats.ch.

Matteo Inaudi was born in 1956 and earned his higher education at the University of Zurich. He is a respected lawyer in the Ming Halpérin Burger Inaudi law firm who has specialised in business, banking and bankruptcy law. Inaudi has been the director of the classical music festival “Amadeus” for over ten years and is a legal advisor for the European Festival Association.

Currently Estonia has 125 honorary consuls in 59 nations. For additional information on Estonia’s honorary consuls: http://www.vm.ee/?q=en/taxonomy/term/155.

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