On 7 May 2022, the Consell per la República, the Catalan government-in-exile led by President Carles Puigdemont and Vice-President Toni Comín, appointed the first foreign affairs delegates, who will now begin building diplomatic representations of the Council of the Republic and the Catalan nation without being subject to the repressive restrictions of the Spanish state. Toni Comín described the appointment of the first nine foreign affairs delegates — three for the European Union, one for the United Kingdom, two for North America, one for Latin America, one foreign affairs delegate for Israel and another for New Zealand — as a decisive step in the construction of a Catalan diplomatic network.
The Catalan people voted for independence from Spain in the form of a Catalan Republic on 1 October 2017. The Catalan Parliament declared Catalonia's independence on 27 October 2017 in accordance with international law. This declaration of independence is valid. It is now necessary to implement it in a second step. It is the task of the foreign affairs delegates to diplomatically accompany and support the process of realising Catalonia's independence. Toni Comín emphasised during the press conference that the foreign affairs delegates can proceed in a way that is currently still forbidden to the delegates of the Generalitat de Catalunya by Spain. The foreign affairs delegates should and will promote the Catalan nation's demand for sovereignty, the rule of law and democracy in other states and inform the public there about what is happening in Catalonia.
The first meeting, chaired by President Carles Puigdemont, was attended by seven of the nine foreign affairs delegates in person, while the other two were connected telematically from the U.S. and New Zealand.
A few days before the meeting, President Carles Puigdemont announced that he would no longer be a candidate for the presidency of the Junts per Catalunya party in order to work in a non-party manner for the construction of the Catalan Republic as President of the Council of the Republic.
https://elmon.cat/politica/consell-republica-primers-delegats-xarxa-diplomatica-418855/