Pascoela Barreto

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Pascoela Barreto Guterres dos Santos (born June 1946 in Bazartete , Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese freedom activist and diplomat.

Career

Barreto was born in what was then the Portuguese Timor colony shortly after World War II . She was able to attend high school ( Liceu ) in Dili and then worked as a primary school teacher in Maliana . In 1970 she went to Portugal , where she completed a sociology degree at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) in Lisbon . In 1973, Barreto became a civil servant in the Portuguese General Directorate for Land Transport and remained so until 2002.

Since the establishment of the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense (CNRT), Barreto has been responsible for finance and resources on its executive committee. From 1999 until the dissolution of the CNRT in June 2001, she was the CNRT representative in Portugal.

From July 2001 until the independence of East Timor on May 20, 2002 she was the representative of the United Nations Interim Administration for East Timor (UNTAET) and finally became East Timor's first ambassador to Portugal . The accreditation and the opening of the embassy, ​​the first East Timor in the world, took place on July 5, 2002. Barreto held the office until December 2005. She was replaced by the former Vice Minister for Justice Manuel Abrantes , while she herself became a representative of East Timor to the Community of Portuguese- Speaking Countries (CPLP).

On March 6, 2007 Barreto received the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique from Portugal .

On December 15, 2016, Barreto was appointed East Timorese ambassador to Vietnam , and on January 15, the accreditation took place with Vietnam's President Trần Đại Quang .

family

Pascoela Barreto is the sister of Isabel Barreto Lobato and sister-in-law of the freedom hero Nicolau dos Reis Lobato . Their son José Maria Barreto Lobato raised the sister Olímpia Barreto and her husband José Gonçalves .

Web links

Commons : Pascoela Barreto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Publico: Primeira embaixada de Timor-Leste abre hoje em Lisboa , July 5, 2002 , accessed on April 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Forum Haksesuk: Pascoela Barreto husi Lisboa ba Bruxelas , January 24, 2006 ( tetum ), accessed on April 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ben Kiernan: Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor , pp. 179/180, 2008.
  4. ↑ SAPO: Diplomacia: Novo embaixador Timor-Leste entrega quarta-feira cartas credenciais , March 20, 2007 , accessed on April 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ Medal bearer on the side of the Portuguese President
  6. ↑ The President's Facebook page: Prezidente Taur Matan Ruak fó Tomada pose ba Embaixadores RDTL , December 15, 2016 , accessed on December 15, 2016.
  7. ^ France Timor Leste: De "Courrier du Vietname" 01/15/2017 , accessed on January 16, 2017.
  8. ↑ Teresa Amal: Sete Mulhers de Timor , 2005 , accessed on May 12, the 020th
personal data
SURNAME Barreto, Pascoela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barreto Guterres dos Santos, Pascoela (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese freedom activist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bazartete , Portuguese Timor