Brian Barder

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Brian Barder (1998)

Sir Brian Leon Barder KCMG (born June 20, 1934 in Bristol ; † September 19, 2017 ) was a British diplomat who, among other things, was ambassador to Ethiopia between 1982 and 1986 , ambassador to the People's Republic of Poland from 1986 to 1988 , between 1988 and 1991 High Commissioner in Nigeria and Ambassador to Benin at the same time . Most recently, he was High Commissioner in Australia from 1991 to 1994 .

Life

Beginning of the diplomatic career

Barder completed after the visit, which was founded in 1550 Sherborne School 1952-1954 officer training in the Royal Armored Corps and was on March 28, 1953 lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) transported. After studying at St Catharine's College of the University of Cambridge he joined in 1957 as an official in the Colonial Office ( Colonial Office ) and was initially auxiliary officer for Nigeria in West Africa -Referat the Ministry and from 1960 to 1961 private secretary of the local Permanent Under Secretary (Permanent Under- Secretary) , Hilton Poynton . After subsequent assignments, he was First Secretary at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City between 1964 and 1968 and was accepted into the diplomatic service (Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service) during this time in 1965 . After his return, he was from 1968 to 1970 as a consultant for Nigeria in the West Africa section of what is now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth of Nations ( Foreign and Commonwealth ), which was merged in October 1968 from the Ministry for Commonwealth Relations with the Foreign Office Office ) . During this time he dealt, among other things, with relations with Nigeria during the Biafra War .

Then in 1971 Barder became first secretary and press attaché at the embassy in the Soviet Union and subsequently acted as counselor and chancellor at the High Commission in Australia between 1973 and 1977 . After attending a course at the Canadian National Defense College in Kingston from 1977 to 1978 , he returned to the State Department in Great Britain. There he was initially head of the Central and South Africa department and finally head of the South Africa department until 1982.

Ambassador and High Commissioner

Dropping relief supplies from a C-130 Hercules of the Royal Air Force , 1985

In 1982 Barder succeeded Robert Tesh as ambassador to Ethiopia and held this post until he was replaced by Harold Berners Walker in 1986. During this time there was a famine in Ethiopia in 1984 , which affected an estimated eight million people, mainly in northern Ethiopia Resulted in the deaths of an estimated half a million to a million people. A BBC report on the famine in Ethiopia shocked the public in the industrialized countries in 1984, whereupon large amounts of donations were collected for the hungry, especially as part of the live aid / band aid concerts by musicians like Bob Geldof . The governments of the industrialized countries also came under pressure to take action. In the wake of the famine, Barder got involved in the implementation of relief measures and the organization of transport flights for the Royal Air Force (RAF) to bring relief supplies to the affected regions.

After finishing his work in Ethiopia, Barder succeeded John Morgan as ambassador to the People's Republic of Poland in 1986 . The time there was shaped by the political situation after the end of martial law in 1983 and the strikes organized by Solidarność , which contributed to the turnaround in Poland . In 1988 he was replaced as ambassador to Poland by Stephen Jeremy Barrett , who was previously ambassador to Czechoslovakia . In 1988, he then took over from Martin Ewan the post of High Commissioner in Nigeria and was at the same time as ambassador to Benin accredited . Great Britain had a sustained interest in the sale of weapons, tanks and aircraft to the government of President Ibrahim Babangida , with Nigeria finding itself in a difficult economic situation. In a letter to the State Department, Barder criticized these armaments sales as he saw the danger that the British taxpayer would have to pay for the trade due to the repression in Nigeria. In 1991 Christopher MacRae replaced him as High Commissioner in Nigeria.

Most recently, Barder succeeded John Coles as High Commissioner in Australia in 1991 and remained in this position until he retired in 1994. He was succeeded by Roger Carrick , who had been Ambassador to Indonesia until then . On January 1, 1992 Barder was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".

After his retirement, Barder was involved between November 1997 and January 2004 as a founding member of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), a special commission that deals with complaints procedures in the case of expulsion and expatriation due to national security.

He died on September 19, 2017.

Publications

  • Britain: Still Looking for that Role? , in: The Political Quarterly , July 2001, pp. 366-374
  • National insecurity. How do you try an alleged terrorist using evidence that's too secret for him to hear? Brian Barder, who used to do just that, explains why he quit , in: The Guardian of March 16, 2004
  • On SIAC. Brian Barder explains why he resigned from the Special Immigration Appeals Commission , in: London Review of Books, March 18, 2004, pp. 40–41
  • Diplomacy, Ethics and the National Interest: What Are Diplomats For? , in: The Hague Journal of Diplomacy , 2010, pp. 289-297
  • The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of diplomacy , editors / authors Geoff Berridge, Alan James, Lorna Lloyd, Brian Barder, Laurence E. Pope and Kishan S. Rana, Palgrave Macmillan , 2013, ISBN 978-0-23030-2-983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 39836, HMSO, London, April 28, 1953, p. 2341 ( PDF , accessed June 14, 2016, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 52767, HMSO, London, December 31, 1991, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed June 14, 2016, English).
  3. ^ Sir Brian Barder obituary , accessed November 13, 2017
  4. ^ The Political Quarterly , July 2001
  5. ↑ The Guardian, March 16, 2004
  6. ↑ London Review of Books, March 18, 2004
  7. ^ The Hague Journal of Diplomacy , 2010
  8. ^ The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of diplomacy. Open Library , March 23, 2012, accessed July 2, 2016 (Proof of publication attributed to Barder).
  9. ^ Proof of publication on the Rowman & Littlefield homepage
personal data
SURNAME Barder, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barder, Brian Leon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 2017