Jan Vanden Bloock

Jan Robert Vanden Bloock (born May 5, 1922 in Vilvoorde , † October 13, 2009 in Waterloo ) was a Belgian diplomat .

Life

Jan Vanden Bloock received his doctorate in law from the University of Brussels in 1945 . He studied business administration at the Institut supérieur du commerce à Bruxelles . After entering the diplomatic service of his country, he was consul general in Stanleyville from July to August 1960 . After Patrice Lumumba's government closed the Belgian consulates general , Vanden Bloock appeared from September 1960 to February 1961 as an advisor to Henri Créner, the consul general in Elisabethville Katanga .

Vanden Bloock was informed of the death of Patrice Lumumba on January 17, 1961, the day Patrice Lumumba was murdered. Nonetheless, the day after the murder, Vanden Bloock and Henri Créner signed a telegram to the Belgian Foreign Ministry on the subject of the kidnapping of Lumumba, which did not report the death. On January 27, 1961, Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny Vanden Bloock sent a telegram to Brussels for consultations , where he arrived on January 30, 1961.

From November 21, 1969 to June 25, 1974 he was ambassador to Kinshasa . In 1976 Vanden Bloock headed the political department of the Belgian Foreign Ministry. In 1984 he was ambassador to Ottawa . From 1984 to 1987 he represented the Belgian government at the EU Commission .

Individual evidence

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predecessor	Office	successor
Paul Bihin	Belgian Ambassador in Kinshasa November 21, 1969 - June 25, 1974	Charles Kerremans
Ferdinand van Bruyssel	Belgian ambassador in Ottawa 1984	Bruno van der Pluijm
1968: Louis Couvreur Ouvreur	Representative of the Belgian government to the EU Commission 1984–1987	2002: Benoît Cardon de Lichtbuer