Nelson Santos

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Nelson Santos (* 1968 in Liquiçá , Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese diplomat.

Career

Santos received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Statistics from Deakin University in Melbourne in 1993 . That same year he was among the first to graduate from the Diplomacy Training Program at the University of New South Wales Law School . He then completed an internship at International Services for Human Rights in Geneva until 1995 .

From 1995 to 1997, Santos served as an officer in the Macau Family Court and from 1997 to 2001 as a Senior Officer at Interpol in Macau. During this time Santos was also active for the East Timorese independence movement.

In 2002, Olímpio Branco , the previous Secretary General of the East Timorese Foreign Ministry , became the new Deputy Foreign Minister. From September on, he was initially replaced by an executive team that took over the post every four months on a rotation basis. This consisted of Santos, as director for bilateral relations, Vicky Tchong , administrative director and Roberto Soares , director for regional affairs. On January 1, 2004, Santos was initially appointed ad interim sole general secretary. He kept his post as director until a successor was appointed. He was Secretary General until September 2006. Santos was responsible for setting up the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. East Timor was only granted independence on May 20, 2002. From May 2002 to January 2007 he was Director of Bilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and regularly headed joint ministerial commissions for East Timor and Indonesia . He was also involved in the negotiations on the demarcation of the border between the two countries and the division of natural resources in the Timor Sea between East Timor and Australia ( see also: border disputes between Australia and East Timor ).

On February 7, 2007, Santos handed over his accreditation as Permanent Representative of East Timor to the United Nations in New York to Ban Ki-moon . He succeeded José Luís Guterres , who became East Timor's new foreign minister in 2006. Santos himself was replaced by Sofia Borges in New York in 2010 . On October 28, 2011, Santos presented his accreditation as Permanent Representative of East Timor to the European Union in Brussels . In personal union, he also held the post of ambassador in Belgium , Germany , Austria and other Central European countries. In 2016, Francisco Tilman Cepeda took over from him in Brussels.

Private

Santos is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f United Nations: NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF TIMOR-LESTE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS , February 7, 2007 , accessed July 15, 2016.
  2. East Timorese government press release: THE NEW SECRETARY GENERAL FOR MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND COOPERATION , January 9, 2004 , accessed on July 9, 2017.
  3. United Nations: New Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste Presents Credentials , accessed July 6, 2016.
  4. European Commission: Presentation of the credentials of the Heads of Mission to José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC , October 28, 2011 , accessed on July 12, 2016.