Paul Heinbecker

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Paul Heinbecker (* 1941 ) is a former Canadian ambassador .

Life

Heinbecker is married to Ayse Köymen, their children are Yasemin and Céline.

Paul Heinbecker earned an honorary bachelor's degree from Waterloo Lutheran University in 1965 and joined the foreign service in 1965. He was accredited by the governments of Ankara, Stockholm and Paris with the Permanent Mission of the Canadian Government to the OECD . In Ottawa, he headed the United States Department and the Policy Department in the Canadian Department of State, United States General Relations Division and as Chairman of the Policy Development Secretariat in External Affairs.

In the late 1980s he was an envoy to Washington. In the early 1990s he advised Brian Mulroney and wrote speeches for him. In 1991 he was Assistant Secretary for Foreign and Defense Policy of the Mulroney Government of Canada. Mulroney sent Heinbecker to Germany as ambassador in 1992.

He dealt with investment conditions for German companies in Canada as well as with the protection of the Canadian fishing industry from overfishing by European fishing groups. Heinbecker then headed the Global Security Policy and International Trade department.

1996 there was an uprising in eastern Zaire Tutsis against the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko . United Nations resolution 1018 sanctioned military humanitarian intervention in Zaire. The Canadian government offered on October 12, 1996 to take over the leadership of the military units that intervened in Zaire. Heinbecker was entrusted with the management. The intervention lasted until March 31, 1997.

During his time at the United Nations in New York, Canada had a seat on the Security Council. He advocated the establishment of the international criminal court . He was an opponent of the Iraq war , and advocated that the UN weapons inspectors be given more time to complete their work. He represented the Canadian government at a human rights conference in Durban in 2001.

Paul Heinbecker was co-founder and first director of the Center for Global Relations , at Wilfrid Laurier University and a fellow at the think tank , Center for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario .

Heinbecker later headed a task force on Kosovo and conducted negotiations in the Yugoslav war of secession . Heinbecker headed the Canadian delegation which signed the Kyoto Protocol on December 11, 1997 . Heinbecker is of the opinion that the protection of human rights does not apply exclusively to members of governments. As a consequence of this view, he sees deficits in the care of the Canadian citizen Maher Arar by the Canadian ambassador, Franco Pillarella in Damascus .

Publications

  • with Patricia Goff (Ed.): Irrelevant or Indispensable? The United Nations in the 21st Century. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, ON 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of the Chief of Mission: NATIONS UNIES (New York). ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.international.gc.ca
  2. ^ Ambassador Paul Heinbecker. ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.canadainternational.gc.ca
  3. ↑ Sharp rebuke for ambassador over Arar comments. June 17, 2005.
  4. ↑ web presence: heinbecker.ca
predecessor Office successor
William Thomas Delworth Canadian envoy in Bonn
October 13, 1992 to August 30, 1996 		Gaëtan Lavertu
Christopher William Westdal Representative of the Government of Canada to the United Nations in New York City
June 26, 2000 to July 2, 2002 		Gilbert Laurin
personal data
SURNAME Heinbecker, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1941