Roberto Soares

Roberto Soares (2017)

Roberto Sarmento de Oliveira Soares is an East Timorese politician and diplomat. From 2015 to 2017 he was Vice Minister for External Affairs and Cooperation. Soares does not belong to any party.

Career

Soares has worked for the East Timorese Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2000.

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 Nelson 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. Soares has been promoted to General Director for Cooperation and Regional Integration. From 2008 to 2010 Soares worked as chairman of the technical sub-committee on the demarcation and regulation between East Timor and Indonesia . In 2009 he was the spokesman for socialization and dissemination for the Truth and Friendship Commission of East Timor and Indonesia. On January 29, 2009 Soares was appointed East Timor's first ambassador to Singapore and Brunei . Accreditation in Singapore was held on March 26, in Brunei on 19 October 2010. He was later replaced by chargé Domingos Savio from.

August 8, 2012 to February 16, 2015 Soares was under Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão in the V. government of the country of State for Relations with ASEAN . With the government reshuffle under Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo , Soares became Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, succeeding Constâncio Pinto , who is now Deputy Minister for Trade, Industry and the Environment. When the VII government took office on September 15, 2017, his term in the cabinet ended.

Web links

Commons : Roberto Sarmento de Oliveira Soares  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ East Timorese government press release: THE NEW SECRETARY GENERAL FOR MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND COOPERATION , January 9, 2004 , accessed on July 9, 2017.
2. ↑ Website of the President of East Timor: Timor-Leste's Embassies in abroad ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2016 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. , accessed July 16, 2016. 
3. ↑ Website of the President of East Timor: HE THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, TAUR MATAN RUAK, SWEARS IN THE AMBASSADORS OF TIMOR-LESTE TO CHINA, JAPAN, THE HOLY SEE, CAMBODIA, THAILAND AND SINGAPORE , November 19, 2015  ( page no longer available , Search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 22, 2016  
4. ^ East Timorese Government website: Structure of the V Constitutional Government , accessed March 9, 2014
5. ^ Website of the government of East Timor: Structure of the VI Constitutional Government , accessed on February 19, 2015 (English)