This is his first appointment as ambassador. Aged 46, Laurent Garnier presented this morning his credentials to the President of the Republic, Kailash Yage. And met the Prime Minister in the course of the afternoon. "My assignment Mauritius placed under the sign of continuity," said the new French ambassador.
Laurent Garnier has twenty years in the French civil service. Before being transferred to Mauritius, he was Director of Financial Affairs at the French Foreign Ministry.