Ovídio de Andrade Melo

Ovídio de Andrade Melo (born September 17, 1925 in Barra do Pirai, Rio de Janeiro , † 2014 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian diplomat .

Life

Ovídio de Andrade Melo holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Social Science from the Faculty of Law of Niterói . From 1948 to 1949 he attended the Rio Branco Institute . From 1952 to 1954 he was third class consul in Canada . From 1954 to 1956 he was the third class delegation secretary in Lima . In 1957 he was Vice Consul in Kobe . From 1958 to 1959 he was assistant to the department head of Itamaraty.

From 1960 he was promoted from Second Class Secretary to First Class Secretary in the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC . He was a participant in the Comitê dos 21 . From 1962 he was Secretary of the Embassy in Buenos Aires .

From August 5 to 7, 1961, representatives of the US government presented the Alliance for Progress in Punta del Este at an extraordinary conference of the CIES . The government of Fidel Castro , represented by Che Guevara , declined to participate. From January 22 to 31, 1962 Ovídio de Andrade Melo was part of the delegation at the eighth conference of foreign ministers of the OAS in Punta del Este, where the US government succeeded in suspending the membership of Fidel Castro's government in the OAS .

The government of João Goulart had established diplomatic relations with the government of Nikita Khrushchev and Ovídio de Andrade Melo was a member of a delegation that negotiated and signed a trade agreement from 1962 to 1963.

In 1963 he was a participant in the second annual meeting of the CIES in São Paulo . In 1965 he took part in a conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Algiers . From 1965 he headed the United Nations department at Itamaraty. In 1967 he was promoted to the second class councilor. In 1967 he was deputy head of the delegation to the conference of the Comissão Preparatória para a Desnuclearização da América Latina (COPREDAL) in Mexico City and was a participant in a disarmament commission in Geneva . From 1967 to 1968 he was the office manager of the general secretary of Itamaraty. From 1968 to 1975 he was Consul General in London . On November 11, 1975, he was special envoy for the celebrations of Angola's independence from Portugal in Luanda .

From September 4, 1975 to 1982 he was ambassador to Bangkok and at the same time accredited to the governments in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore . In 1982 he was Ambassador to Kingston, Jamaica and accredited to the International Seabed Authority .

publication

• Memoirs of a mold removing diplomat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary on cartacapital.com.br. Retrieved November 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Comitê dos 21 : Committee of 21 American Republics, in the OAS, which sought to combine containment policy with economic development based on the model of the Marshall Plan , according to the Juscelino Kubitschek propagated Operação Pan-americana .
3. ^ CIES , Conselho Interamericano Económico e Social, IAESC Inter-American Economic and Social Council, organ of the OAS
4. ↑ Discurso en Punta del Este, Uruguay, 8 de agosto de 1961 Discurso en Punta del Este, Uruguay, 8 de agosto de 1961
5. ↑ Alzira Alves de Abreu, Sergio Lamarão, Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão, Personalidades da política externa brasileira (PDF; 740 kB), Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (Fundação Getúlio Vargas), Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão, 2007 - 164 S., p. 123
6. ↑ Memoirs of a mold removing diplomat (PDF; 868 kB)

predecessor	Office	successor
	Special envoy in Luanda November 11, 1975	Mauro Sergio da Fonseca Costa Couto
Flavio Mendes de Oliveira Castro	Brazilian Ambassador to Bangkok September 4, 1975 to 1982	Joaquim Ignácio Amazon Macdowell
Márcio Paulo de Oliveira Dias	Brazilian Ambassador to Kingston 1982 to October 17, 1982	Maria Edileuza Fontenele Reis