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

Portuguese Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
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

• Relations between the Republic of the Congo and Portugal
• Foreign policy of Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview of diplomatic relations with the Republic of the Congo at the Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on November 22, 2019
2. ↑ 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
3. ↑ 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
4. ↑ 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