List of Portuguese ambassadors in the Republic of the Congo
The list of Portuguese ambassadors to the Republic of the Congo lists the ambassadors of the Republic of Portugal to the Republic of the Congo (between 1969 and 1991 People's Republic of the Congo ). The countries have maintained diplomatic relations since 1960, which go back to the arrival of the Portuguese sailors on the Congo River in 1482 and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Congo from 1491 .
A Portuguese representative was first accredited in 1961 in the Congolese capital Brazzaville . The Portuguese embassy there was closed again in 1965 after diplomatic relations were broken off as a result of the Portuguese colonial war in nearby Angola . In 1975, after the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974 and the subsequent end of the colonial war, the two states resumed diplomatic relations. Since then, Portugal has not reopened its own embassy there, the Republic of the Congo belongs to the administrative district of the Portuguese Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Zaire between 1971 and 1997 ), who is second accredited in Brazzaville (as of 2019).
There is a Portuguese honorary consulate in the Congolese port city of Pointe-Noire .
Heads of mission
Surname | image | Term of office | Remarks |
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Republic of the Congo | |||
Gonçalo Luís Maravilhas Correia Caldeira Coelho | May 17, 1961 -6. May 1962 |
Ambassador based in Brazzaville, accredited on May 25, 1961 | |
Humberto Pinto de Lima | August 4, 1962-19. June 1964 |
Charge d'Affaires at Headquarters Brazzaville | |
João Manuel Reprezas Godinho Gueifão | August 11, 1964 -24. August 1965 |
Ambassador based in Brazzaville, embassy closed in 1965 | |
Álvaro Manuel Soares Guerra | from 1984 | Ambassador, accredited on August 16, 1984 | |
José Manuel Duarte de Jesus | from 1989 | Ambassador based in Kinshasa, accredited to Brazzaville on August 29, 1989 | |
João Carlos Bessa Pinto Versteeg | from 1995 | Ambassador based in Kinshasa | |
Francisco Domingos Garcia Falcão Machado | from 1999 | Ambassador based in Kinshasa, accredited in 1999 | |
Alfredo Manuel Silva Duarte Costa | from 2004 | Ambassador based in Kinshasa | |
João Manuel Pina Perestrello Cavaco | since 2008 | Ambassador based in Kinshasa | |
João José Cabral de Albuquerque Côrte-Real | from 2013 | Ambassador based in Kinshasa | |
António Gaspar Inocêncio Pereira | since 2017 | Ambassador based in Kinshasa |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of diplomatic relations with the Republic of the Congo at the Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on November 22, 2019
- ↑ Overview of the consular contact details in the Republic of the Congo , website of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry for travelers and Portuguese abroad, accessed on November 22, 2019
- ↑ List of the Portuguese ambassadors to the Republic of the Congo at the Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Foreign Ministry, accessed on November 22, 2019
- ↑ List of the Portuguese ambassadors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Foreign Ministry, accessed on November 22, 2019