List of Portuguese ambassadors in Cambodia

The list of Portuguese ambassadors in Cambodia lists the ambassadors of the Republic of Portugal in Cambodia . The countries have maintained renewed diplomatic relations since 1957, dating back to the first arrival of Portuguese explorers in what is now Cambodia in the early 16th century.

In protest against the Portuguese colonial wars, Cambodia cut diplomatic relations for some time in 1964.

For the first time , a Portuguese ambassador personally accredited himself to Cambodia in 1996. Portugal did not open its own embassy there, the Portuguese representative in Thailand is still responsible for Cambodia and is accredited for this purpose in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh (as of 2019).

Heads of mission

Portuguese Ambassador to Cambodia

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
Cambodia
Gabriel Maria da Costa Mesquita de Brito		from 1996	Ambassador based in Bangkok , accredited in Phnom Penh on May 28, 1996
José Tadeu da Costa Sousa Soares		from 1999	Ambassador based in Bangkok
João António da Silveira de Lima Pimentel		from 2002	Ambassador based in Bangkok
António Félix Machado de Faria e Maya		since 2006	Ambassador based in Bangkok
Jorge Ryder Torres Pereira		from 2010	Ambassador based in Bangkok
Luís Manuel Barreira de Sousa		from 2013	Ambassador based in Bangkok
Francisco de Assis Morais e Cunha Vaz Patto		since 2015	Ambassador based in Bangkok

See also

• Cambodian-Portuguese relations
• Foreign policy of Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Overview of diplomatic relations with Cambodia , website of the Diplomatic Institute of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on December 12, 2019
2. ↑ List of the Portuguese ambassadors in Thailand , Diplomatic Institute in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, accessed on December 12, 2019