José Viegas Filho

José Viegas

José Viegas Filho (born October 14, 1942 in Campo Grande ) is a former Brazilian diplomat .

Life

Filho is the son of Dirce Bastos Viegas and José Viegas. In 1964 he completed the Curso Preparatório à Carreira Diplomática (CPCD) of the Rio Branco Institute . As part of the Curso de Altos Estudios he wrote A segurança do Atlântico sul e as Relações com a África in 1982 . After Filho was deployed on a special mission in Rome in 1984 , he was transferred to Paris in 1985 as a delegate and a year later to Havana , where in 1987 he headed the Brazilian delegation to the Grupo Executivo de Países Latino-Americanos e do Caribe Exportadores de Açúcar .

In 1991 Filho headed the planning staff and the international organizations division of Itamaraty. In 1992 he became a member of the Audit Committee of the Rio Branco Institute and headed the Brazilian delegation both at a conference on the reform of the Treaty of Tlatelolco and a year later at the Conference of the Non-Aligned in Cairo. In 1994 he was responsible for the policy of the Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas (EMFA) and prepared for Brazil's accession to the Missile Technology Control Regime . The following year, he again led the Brazilian delegation to a seminar on confidence-building measures for South America in Newport (Rhode Island) .

From August 28, 1995 to April 16, 1998, he was deployed as ambassador in Copenhagen and accredited in Vilnius . In the meantime, he headed the Brazilian delegation in 1996 both at the conference on the revision of the Convention on the Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons in Relation to Technical Requirements for Landmines in Vienna and Geneva and in 1998 at the Comitê Intergovernamental de Seguimento e Coordenação do Programa de Cooperação entre Países em Desenvolvimento CISC in Havana.

Filho was then employed as an ambassador from April 16, 1998 to August 8, 2001, first in Lima and then until December 28, 2002 in Moscow , where on October 4, 2001 he also worked at the embassies in Minsk , Tbilisi and Astana ( Kazakhstan ) was accredited. Finally, Filho was appointed from January 1, 2003 to November 8, 2004 as Minister of Defense in the first government cabinet of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva .

After this ministerial office, Filho took over the office of ambassador again from May 23, 2005 to March 11, 2009, this time in Madrid and Andorra and then to the government in Rome until March 15, 2013, where he also worked in Tirana and Valletta was accredited.

Activities in the overview

predecessor	Office	successor
Luiz António Jardim Gagliardi	Ambassador to Copenhagen 1995–1998	Carlos Luiz Coutinho Perez
Raul Fernando Belford Roxo Leite Ribeiro	Ambassador to Lima 1998-2001	André Mattoso Maia Amado
Thereza Maria Machado Quintella	Ambassador to Moscow 2001–2002	Carlos Augusto Rego Santos Neves
Geraldo Magela da Cruz Quintão	Minister of Defense 2003–2004	José Alencar
Osmar Vladimir Chohfi	Ambassador to Madrid 2005–2009	Paulo Cesar de Oliveira Campos
Adhemar Gabriel Bahadian	Ambassador next to the Italian government 2009–2013	Ricardo Neiva Tavares

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mensagem Senado Federal MSF 205 de 2004 MSF 93 de 2005 cv ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ MSF 58 de 2011 cv ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.