Willem Christiaan Naudé

Willem Christiaan Naudé (born May 5, 1909 in Stellenbosch , † in the 20th century) was a South African ambassador.

Life

Willem Christiaan Naudé was the son of CF Naudé. He married Maud Josephine Gill in 1932. In 1944 he was an attaché at the South African legation in Washington, DC and served from July 1 to 22, 1944, delegation counselor at the conference on the Bretton Woods system .

From 1946 to 1949 he was Counselor to the South African High Commission in London .

On October 16, 1951, he received exequatur as consul general in Lourenço Marques , Mozambique . From November 8, 1954 he was chargé d'affaires in Bern , where he was accredited as envoy extraordinary from June 1, 1956 to April 30, 1957.

From 1959 to 1960 he was State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry. On August 19, 1960, he was appointed ambassador to Washington, DC , where he was accredited from September 13, 1960 to February 9, 1965. From 1965 to 1966 he was the first deputy foreign minister. From May 26, 1966 to June 11, 1971, he was permanent representative of the South African government at the United Nations Office in Geneva . From July 26, 1971 to 1998, there was a separate representative at the EEC in Brussels in addition to the South African representation at the government of Belgium. Willem Christiaan Naude was accredited in this capacity on July 26, 1971 and was replaced by Elias Links in mid-1996.

He was a delegate to the General Assemblies of the United Nations : 1953, 1959, 1963 and 1965. He headed the South African delegation to the GATT negotiations from 1954 to 1956, 1966 to 1968 and 1970 to 1972. He headed the South African delegation to UNCTAD-II in New Delhi in 1968.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adviser: Willem Christiaan Naudé (1909-?), Attaché, South African Legation, Washington; later South African Ambassador to the United States (1960–1965), Who Was at Bretton Woods , p. 17.
2. ↑ Kingdom of Belgium [1]

predecessor	Office	successor
Frans du Plessis	South African Consul General in Lourenço Marques October 16, 1951 to October 3, 1954	John Edward Bruce
Harry Thomson Andrews	Head of the South African Mission in Bern November 8, 1954 June 1, 1956 to April 30, 1957	Hendrik Albertus Geldenhuys
Wentzel Christoffel du Plessis	South African Ambassador to Washington September 13, 1960 to February 9, 1965	Harold Langmead Taylor Taswell
Harry Thomson Andrews	Permanent Representative of the South African Government to the United Nations Office in Geneva May 26, 1966 to June 11, 1971	Harold Langmead Taylor Taswell
Johannes von Dalsen	Permanent representative of the South African government to the EEC July 26, 1971 to 1975	Elias links