Manuel Abrantes

Manuel Abrantes is an East Timorese politician and diplomat.

Commission for Law & Peace of the Diocese of Baucau (2002)

Abrantes was chairman of the Catholic Peace and Justice Commission during the United Nations interim administration for East Timor .

Under Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri , Abrantes was East Timor's Deputy Minister of Justice from May 20, 2002 to June 26, 2006 . He was followed by Isabel da Costa Ferreira .

In 2006 Abrantes succeeded Pascoela Barreto as East Timor's ambassador to Portugal. He held the office until January 2009, three months before his actual end of the term. There should have been tensions with Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão . His successor was Natália Carrascalão Antunes .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marianne Klute: Eleventh Christian Consultation on East Timor October 6-8, 2000 in Utrecht , accessed on April 23, 2016.
2. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: I Constitutional Government (English)
3. ^ O Eça: Manuel Abrantes cessou funções de embaixador em Lisboa , January 2, 2009 , accessed on April 23, 2016.
4. ↑ SAPO: Diplomacia: Novo embaixador Timor-Leste entrega quarta-feira cartas credenciais , March 20, 2007 ( Memento of the original of April 23, 2016 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. , accessed April 23, 2016.