In brief

UK diplomat for Holy See
TIM BRITISH Government has appointed a new ambassador to the Holy See.
Kathryn Colvin, who will take up her new appointment in July 2002, succeeds Mark Pellew who will be retiring from the diplomatic service Mrs Colvin, 56, entered the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1968 and worked for a decade in the information research department. From 1977 to 1994, she was based in the research and analysis department, spending 10 years in Geneva as part to the UK Delegation to the Commission on Human Rights.
In 1995, after a year as deputy head of Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe Unit, Mrs Colvin was made deputy head of the Foreign Office's western European department.
In 1998, she became deputy head of the Whitehall liaison department and in 1999 served as head of protocol division and vice-marshal of the diplomatic corps.
Mrs Colvin is an officier of the Legion d'honneur.