Abel Guterres

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Abel Guterres

Abel Guterres , (* 1956 (?) In Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese diplomat. From 2010 to 2019 he was the Ambassador of East Timor to Australia and also responsible for Fiji and until 2014 for New Zealand .

Career

As a child, Guterres carried fruit and vegetables for hours through the mountains in order to sell them in the Baucau market and thus take care of his siblings.

Guterres was 19 years old when the Indonesian invasion of East Timor loomed in 1975 . He managed to fly to Australia on a plane, where he stayed for the next 24 years. 13 of his 14 siblings and his father were killed in an Indonesian bombing in December 1977. Only his mother and an older brother survived. Among other things, Guterres worked in Melbourne as a train driver and bus driver. At the same time he was active in the East Timorese independence movement, lobbied together with José Ramos-Horta and was a spokesman for radio 3CR , which broadcast news in Tetum . During this time, Guterres also received Australian citizenship.

In 1990 Guterres was appointed the official representative of the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Maupe CNRM in Australia, New Zealand and the island states of the South Pacific. The CNRM, later CNRT, was the umbrella organization of the East Timorese independence movement. After completing diplomatic training at the University of New South Wales in 2000, Guterres was sent to the University of Oxford where he studied international law, politics, practical diplomacy and international economics and finance in a diplomatic service program. Guterres received the diploma with distinction.

Guterres took over the department for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific in the Foreign Ministry in the independent East Timor, was Deputy Director for the independence celebrations on May 20, 2002, the first Consul General of East Timor in Sydney (2002-2008), Chief of Staff to Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta in 2007 and Director of Bilateral Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From May 18, 2010, Guterres is East Timor's ambassador to Australia, succeeding Hernâni Coelho . Guterres' term of office ended in 2019.

Others

Abel Guterres is married to Ana Paula Mok Guterres.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Australian Government: Foreign embassies and consulates in Australia: Timor-Leste ( Memento of February 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Swearing-in ceremony of the new Timor-Leste Ambassador to Australia: Speech by President José Ramos-Horta , May 3, 2010 ( memento of April 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ BBC World: From Bus Driver to Ambassador , April 2, 2015 , accessed April 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c One just world: Get to know Abel Guterres , accessed on April 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Diplomacy Training Program: His Excellency Abel Guterres , accessed April 6, 2015.
  6. ↑ SAPO: Oito novos embaixadores timorenses, incluindo em Lisboa, tomam posse este mês , January 17, 2020 , accessed on January 18, 2020.
predecessor Office successor
Hernâni Coelho Ambassador of East Timor to Australia
2010–2019 		-
personal data
SURNAME Guterres, Abel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Portuguese Timor