Dionísio Babo

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Dionísio Babo Soares (2017)

Dionísio da Costa Babo Soares (born August 16, 1966 in Ermera , Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese politician . From 2012 to 2015 he was Minister of Justice and from 2015 to 2017 Minister of State, Coordinator of Administrative Affairs and Minister of State Administration. From 2018 to 2020, Babo was East Timor’s Foreign Minister . He belongs to the Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense (CNRT) party.

Career

Babo graduated from Udayana University in Denpasar, Indonesia in 1990 in constitutional law . As a student he worked actively in the resistance movement against the occupation of his home country and was a member of various groups such as the Liga dos Estudantes Patriotas LEP. In 1989 he was involved in a petition intended to draw the United Nations' attention to the fate of East Timor. He also took part in demonstrations in front of the Indonesian embassy in Wellington , New Zealand . In 1995 Babo received a Masters degree in Philosophy with a concentration in Development Studies from Massey University in Palmerston North . Since 1998 he has been working on his PhD in anthropology at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University . His research focused on political and social developments in East Timor during the preparation for independence between 1999 and 2002. In 2003 he worked at the Asia Foundation in East Timor. Babo also taught at the Universidade da Paz between 2003 and 2012 and at the Universidade de Díli (UNDIL) from 2003 to 2004 . In 2003 Babo co-founded the Academia de Café de Timor-Leste .

Official parliamentary photo

From 2005 to 2008, Babo and the Indonesian Benjamin Mangkoedilaga chaired the Truth and Friendship Commission (CTF), which was commissioned by the presidents of both countries to deal with the human rights violations during the crisis in East Timor in 1999 . Pro-Indonesian militias and Indonesian security personnel hit occupied East Timor with a final wave of violence after the population voted in favor of independence in a referendum . Around 250,000 East Timorese fled or were forcibly deported to West Timor , and around 2,000 to 3,000 people died. The CTF's final report found that Indonesia's government, military and police were "grave complicity in the grave human rights violations" in the 1999 riots. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono declared his "regret for the mistakes" made in 1999. The UN, human rights organizations, churches and many residents of East Timor were dissatisfied with the way the violence had been dealt with and continued to demand that the perpetrators be prosecuted.

On May 12, 2005, Babo was sworn in as a member of the National Security Council and, with the presidential decree 04/2006, became a member of the Board of Directors of Public Broadcasting.

In 2007, Babo became General Secretary of the CNRT, newly founded by Xanana Gusmão . The party provided Gusmão as the prime minister for elections from 2007 to 2015 . Babo worked as an advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister José Luís Guterres . After the new elections in 2012 , in which the CNRT became the strongest force, Babo was sworn in on August 8, 2012 as the new Justice Minister of East Timor. Babo therefore did not take up his office as a member of parliament. He had moved into the national parliament of East Timor at number 2 on the CNRT's list. During the government reshuffle in February 2015, Babo became Minister of State, Administrative Affairs Coordinator and Minister of State Administration. In 2017, Babo lost his post as General Secretary of the CNRT to Francisco Kalbuadi Lay at the party congress . But Babo became president of the party's National Executive Council.

Babo and UN Secretary General António Guterres (2019)

In the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2017 , Babo managed to get back into parliament in second place on the CNRT's list. But when the CNRT went into opposition, Babo lost his government office. Since September 2017, Babo has been a delegate of the national group of the national parliament to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Community of Portuguese- Speaking Countries (CPLP) and a member of the Commission on Constitutional Affairs, Justice, Public Administration, Local Justice and Anti-Corruption (Commission A).

In 2018 the parliament was dissolved. In the early elections , Babo moved back into parliament on list position 10 of the Aliança para Mudança e Progresso (AMP), to which the CNRT belongs. On June 22, 2018, Babo was sworn in as Foreign Minister, which is why he automatically had to give up his seat in parliament. At the United Nations General Assembly in 2018, Babo was supposed to give a speech, but was replaced at short notice by Milena Pires , East Timor's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York , because he fell ill. Babo had to undergo an operation in New York because of a heart problem.

Following the breakup of AMP 2020, members of the government of the CNRT were asked to resign from the government. Babo followed suit on May 25th.

Publications (selection)

Web links

Commons : Dionísio Babo Soares  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ministério da Administração Estatal: Ministro ( Memento of November 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 25, 2015.
  2. ^ Library of Congress
  3. ↑ Fox, James J., 1940-. II. Soares, Dionisio Babo: Out of the Ashes: The Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor , ISBN 978-0-9751229-1-4 .
  4. ↑ [http://www.jornalbisnistimor.com/lalenok-sidade-dili/2155-etci-selebra-loron-dies-natalis-ba-dala-xi '' ETCI selebra loron Dies Natalis ba Dala XI '', 22. September 2014] (link not available)
  5. ↑ ETAN, May 13, 2006, RI, Timor Leste urged to get behind truth commission
  6. ↑ TOO MUCH FRIENDSHIP, TOO LITTLE TRUTH Monitoring Report on the Commission of Truth and Friendship in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Jakarta blamed for East Timor rights violations ( Memento from May 6, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ^ BBC, July 15, 2008, Indonesia regrets E Timor wrongs
  9. ↑ Reuters Alertnet, July 16, 2008, INTERVIEW-E. Timor PM satisfied with Indonesia's regret
  10. ↑ Ruth Elizabeth Nuttall: The Origins and Onset of the 2006 Crisis in Timor-Leste , PhD Thesis, The Australian National University, February 2017 , accessed July 31, 2019.
  11. ↑ Jornal da República: Decretos do Presidente da República , accessed on April 26, 2016.
  12. ↑ Gavin Ryan: Political Parties and Groupings of Timor-Leste , 2nd edition, Australian Labor International, 2007 ( Memento of June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English; PDF; 996 kB)
  13. ^ UNDP, International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth: Timor celebrates 10 years of Independence with Conference on Social Programs , 2012 ( Memento from May 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: The Fourth Constitutional Government of East Timor
  15. ↑ Parliament's website ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ CNRT electoral list for 2012 , accessed January 26, 2014
  17. ↑ Lusa: Xanana continua presidente do maior partido de Timor-Leste, Kalbuadi eleito secretário-geral , May 1, 2017 , accessed on May 1, 2017.
  18. ↑ Diário de Notícias: Timor-Leste / Eleições: A campanha mais profissional e sofisticada de semper , accessed on July 11, 2017.
  19. ↑ La'o Hamutuk: Who will be in Timor-Leste's next Parliament? / Se sei tuir iha Parlamentu Nasionál? , July 23, 2017 , accessed September 7, 2017.
  20. ↑ Jornal da República : RESOLUÇÃO DO PARLAMENTO NACIONAL N °. 20/2017, ELEIÇÃO DO GRUPO NACIONAL DO PARLAMENTO NACIONAL À ASSEMBLEIA PARLAMENTAR DA COMUNIDADE DOS PAÍSES DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA , September 27, 2017 , accessed on January 4, 2018.
  21. ↑ National Parliament of East Timor: Comissões Especializadas Permanentes, Competencia e Composição 2017–2022 ( Memento of October 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 4, 2017.
  22. ^ Election lists for the 2018 parliamentary elections
  23. ↑ SAPO: Primeiro grupo de membros do VIII Governo timorense tomou posse em Díli , June 22, 2018 , accessed on June 23, 2018.
  24. ↑ Observador: Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros timorense submetido a cirurgia devido a problema cardíaco , October 2, 2018 , accessed on October 3, 2018.
  25. ↑ Tatoli: Foreign Minister Dionísio Soares Among Five MPs to Resign From Cabinet , May 25, 2020 , accessed May 26, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Babo, Dionísio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Babo Soares, Dionísio da Costa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Ermera , Portuguese Timor