Mauro Mendes de Azeredo

Mauro Mendes de Azeredo (born July 26, 1937 in Porto Alegre ) is a retired Brazilian diplomat .

Life

Mauro Mendes de Azeredo is the son of Maria Mendes de Azeredo and José Raphael de Azeredo. He joined the Foreign Service on December 30, 1957 . In 1959 he attended the course Curso Preparatório à Carreira Diplomática (CPCD) at the Rio Branco Institute in Brasília, where he received the Prémio Rio-Branco award on December 29, 1959 and was appointed third class consul.

1960 was promoted to Bachelor of Laws . In 1964 he was second-class delegation secretary in Paris and in 1966 he was transferred to Quito in this capacity . In 1968 he was first class diplomatic secretary in Rome and in 1972 in Mexico City . He headed the Brazilian delegation during the extraordinary session of the Organismo para a Proscrição de Armas Nucleares na América Latina e no Caribe (OPANAL, Organization for the Supervision of the Treaty of Tlatelolco ). On March 30, 1973, he was promoted to the Legation Council. In 1974 he was entrusted with special tasks in the office of the Foreign Minister and from 1976 he had the rank of assessor there. In 1977 he headed the “Europe Department” in the Foreign Ministry, was promoted to envoy on November 17 and was accepted as an officer in the Legion of Honor . In 1978 he chaired the Brazilian-German working group for financing issues, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Grand Officer of the Portuguese Ordem Militar de Cristo and headed the Brazilian delegation at the third meeting of the Brazilian-Italian commission.

In 1979 he was envoy to the Holy See and acted as chargé d'affaires in the ambassador's absence. In 1984 he became a Grand Officer of the Pro Merito Melitensi Order of Merit and the Order of Gregory and headed the planning staff of Itamarity . In 1986 he headed the Internacionais Especiais department and the Brazilian delegation of the fourth session in preparation for the International Seabed Authority in New York . He was also chief secretary of the Comissão Nacional para Assuntos Antárticos (CONANTAR Antártida Brasileira).

In 1987 he chaired the Brazilian delegation in the bilateral Brazilian-Soviet negotiations on extraterritorial areas and the law of the sea in Moscow . In the same year he headed the Brazilian delegation for the fifth session to prepare the International Seabed Authority in Kingston and New York and led the Group of 77 in the negotiations on the law of the sea before the United Nations. He also headed the Brazilian delegation to negotiate the 14th update of the Antarctic Treaty in Rio de Janeiro . For his services he was accepted as a commander in the Brazilian orders Ordem do Mérito Aeronáutico and Ordem do Mérito Militar .

From 1989 to 1994 he was ambassador to Guatemala with the official seat in Guatemala City and at the same time accredited to the Honduran government in Tegucigalpa . In 1989 the Brazilian delegation headed the Conferencia Internacional sobre Refugiados Centroamericanos (CIREFCA, Central American Refugee Conference ). From 1994 to 1999 he was ambassador to Algiers . In 2003 he headed the ERERIO (Itamarity branch in Rio de Janeiro ). From June 16, 2005 to 2007 he was ambassador to Athens .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Senado Mauro Mendes de Azeredo ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Espedito de Freitas Resende	Brazilian Chargé d'Affaires to the Holy See 1979–1981	Espedito de Freitas Resende
Fernando Ronald de Carvalho	Brazilian Ambassador to Guatemala 1988–1994	Renan Leite Paes Barreto
João Cabral de Melo Neto	Brazilian Ambassador to Honduras 1989–1994	José Roberto de Almeida Pinto
Doutor Hélio Beltrão	Brazilian Ambassador to Algiers 1994–1999	Isnard Penha Brasil Junior
João Carlos Pessoa Fragoso	Brazilian Ambassador to Athens 2005–2007	Oto Agripino Maia