Maurice Iweins d'Eeckhoutte

Maurice Iweins d'Eeckhoutte (born December 20, 1904 in Ypres , † January 22, 1976 in Uccle / Ukkel ) was a Belgian diplomat .

Life

Maurice Iweins d'Eeckhoutte was the son of Madeleine de Peellaert (* 1873; † 1947) and Henri Iweins d'Eeckhoutte (* 1864; † 1936). He studied law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , entered the foreign service in 1933, married on February 22, 1933 in London Sophie-Edwige de Wrobleska (* 1907) her children were Sybille Iweins d'Eeckhoutte and Benoît Iweins d'Eeckhoutte.

In 1936 he was chargé d'affaires in Tokyo . From 1952 to 1955 he was Consul General in Chicago , from 1955 to 1960 in New York City . In 1960 he was ambassador to Cairo . Egypt was part of the United Arab Republic at the time .

VAR troops were involved in the United Nations operation in Congo . On September 13, 1960, the VAR contingent declared it regards the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the only authority with the right to control the country and evaded the orders of the United Nations. On October 31, 1960, three children of Patrice Lumumba came to Cairo. In November 1960, Murad Ghalib , the envoy of the United Arab Republic, was expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Al-Ahram claimed that the deportation was arranged by the Belgian government and described Joseph Kasavubu and Mobutu Sese Seko as puppets that moved according to Belgian finger games.

In June and November 1960, the Egyptian government placed the Companie d'Electricité du Caire , the Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company and the Societe Anonyme des Tramways du Caire under local government control. This ended a mainly Belgian ownership of municipal public transport in Egypt. With a series of laws, the Egyptian government nationalized the Banque Belge et Internationale en Egypte (Belginter) on November 1, 1960 and placed a large part of other Belgian direct investments under the supervision of the customs authorities. The Banque Belge et Internationale en Egypte and the National Bank of Egypt were not included when the major foreign banks were Egyptized in 1957. On December 2, 1960, Eeckhoutte was ordered by the Belgian government to make a strong protest against nationalization. On December 3, 1960, Eeckhoutte had an appointment with Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fazi and on December 6, 1960 Eeckhoutte was received for seven minutes by the Deputy Foreign Minister of the VAR, Hussein Dhu-al-Fiqar Sabri. After Patrice Lumumba was abducted, the Belgian embassies in Cairo and Jakarta were devastated and set on fire. On February 25, 1961, the Belgian government severed diplomatic relations with the government of Gamal Abdel Nasser .

From December 15, 1962 to December 31, 1970 he was Secretary General of the Western European Union .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The UAR regards the Congo Government as the only authority possessing the right to control its country. It has therefore decided to withdraw its contigent in Congo from the UN Command. "Ahram, Sept. 13, 1960 after Yitzhak Oron, Ed., Middle East Record Volume 1, 1960 p. 29
2. ↑ Antoine Pillet, Paul Fauchille, Revue générale de droit international public: droit des gens-histoire diplomatique-droit pénal-droit fiscal-droit administratif , Vol 65A. Pedone, 1961
3. ↑ Jean-Claude Willame, Patrice Lumumba: la crise congolaise revisitée, 1990, p 473
4. ↑ Der Spiegel , February 24, 1969, EUROPA / WEU-BOYKOTT , The thread breaks

predecessor	Office	successor
Albert de Bassompierre	Belgian representative in Japan in 1936	Albert de Bassompierre
Blondeel van Cuelbroeck	Belgian Ambassador to Cairo 1960 - February 25, 1961	Georges Carlier Benoît Cardon de Lichtbuer
Louis Goffin	General Secretary of the WEU December 15, 1962 to December 31, 1970	Georges Heisbourg