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The Secretary Geral, Amb. Alfredo Dombe; the Dir. for África, Amb. Miguel Bembe; the HR Dir. Amb. Elsa Caposso and the Deputy Dir. of the Institute for Ang. Communities and Cons. Services, Minister Counsellor, Maria António, were sworn in today by Minister Amb. Téte António.
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In order to increase the safety of maternal and child health professionals and patients, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), through the “Project for the Improvement of Mother and Child Health through the Implementation of the Maternal Health Notebook Infantile (PROMESSA-CSMI) ”, will make the donation of biosafety means to health units in Luanda Province.
The act began this Tuesday, September 1st, 2020, at the Reference Health Center of Bom Jesus, located in the municipality of Icolo e Bengo, with the symbolic delivery made by the Chief Representative of JICA in Angola, Mr. MIYAMOTO Yoshihiro .
The event was attended by entities from the Provincial Health Office of Luanda, Municipal Directorate of Icolo and Bengo and members of the PROMESSA-CSMI Project. This key support of the Japanese people in the fight against COVID-19, will extend to all municipalities in the Province of Luanda.
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REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA
MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Office of the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Angolan Communities
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OF
HIS EXCELLENCY AMBASSADOR DOMINGOS VIEIRA LOPES
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND ANGOLAN COMMUNITIES
DOMINGOS CUSTÓDIO VIEIRA LOPES was born in Luanda on April 1, 1959. He is married and has four children.
Career Ambassador, with an academic background that began at Cáritas Portuguesa (primary school) and at the then João Crisóstomo School (preparatory); in 1975 he passed through the Center for Revolutionary Instruction (CIR) of Tombo; attended 5th year of high school at Ngola Kiluange School and Pre-university Education at Mutu-Ya-Kevela School; attended the 3rd year of Law at Agostinho Neto University and graduated in Development Management and International Cooperation at the Modern University of Lisbon/Portugal.
During his professional career he held management and leadership positions at the then Secretary of State for Cooperation (SECOOP) where he was Head of the Planning and Finance Department (1982) and Head of the Global Planning Department (1984).
With the merger between MIREX and SECOOP he assumed the position of Director of the Planning Office of SECOOP (1987) and Head of the Programmes and Projects Department of the Economic Affairs Office of MIREX (1990).
He was National Liaison Officer and Coordinator of the SADCC/SADC Committee of Experts. In this capacity, he participated in seven Summits of Heads of State and seven Ministerial Conferences with international cooperation Partners.
He coordinated the Expert Group of Angola in the technical meetings that under the guidance of the Heads of State participated in the elaboration of the SADC Treaty signed in Windhoek-Namibia, in August 1992.
At the Secretariat of State for Cooperation he was Director for Africa and the Middle East (1992) and Director for International Organisations (1996).
At the Ministry of External Relations , he was Head of the Asia and Oceania Department of the Directorate for Bilateral Cooperation (2002); Advisor/Minister-Councillor at the Embassy of the Republic of Angola in the Kingdom of Sweden, Nordic Countries and Baltic States (2003); Head of America Department of the Directorate for Bilateral Cooperation (2008); Director of the Directorate for Bilateral Cooperation (2010); promoted to Career Ambassador (2010); Consultant at the Office of the Secretary of State for Administrative Organization (2012); Consul General of the Republic of Angola in Oporto/Portugal (2013); appointed Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Angolan Communities (2017).
During his career, he has participated in several activities such as
• Coordination of Bilateral Cooperation Committees;
• Participation in the negotiation of General Cooperation Agreements between Angola and Cuba (Vice President of the Republic) and Brazil (President of the Republic);
• Participation in the signing of the Strategic Partnership Agreement between Angola and the United States of America;
• Participation in various Commissions to draft the Organic Statute of the Ministry of External Relations;
• Coordinator of the Commission for the creation of the Cooperation Institute;
• Upgrading courses on Project Management in Angola, Brazil and China.
He understands and speaks English, Spanish and French.
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REPÚBLICA DE ANGOLA
MINISTÉRIO DAS RELAÇÕES EXTERIORES
Gabinete de Comunicação Institucional e Imprensa
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OF
HER EXCELLENCY AMBASSADOR
ESMERALDA BRAVO CONDE DA SILVA MENDONÇA
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Esmeralda Bravo Conde da Silva Mendonça, born on July 2, 1963, in the then municipality of Rangel, Province of Luanda, is the daughter of Mário Conde Nunes da Silva and Iolanda António.
She attended primary school in Kibala, Kuanza-Sul province, where she was a boarding student at Lar da Mocidade Portuguesa.
Back in Luanda, she continued her studies and in 1978 finished secondary school at N’Zinga M’bandi School.
In 1993, she concluded the High Course in Labour Economics at the Centre for Labour Studies, in the city of Luanda, and in 2006 she graduated in Law from the Agostinho Neto University, also in the city of Luanda.
She has been a staff member of the Ministry of External Relations since 1983, having entered the diplomatic career in 1993, in the rank of Third Secretary.
She rose to the rank of Minister Counsellor in 2015, and Ambassador in 2019.
Throughout her career she has attended several professional training courses, in particular the Diplomatic and Consular Training Course, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal in 1997, the Professional Technical Upgrading Course for Diplomats, organized by the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of External Relations (IRI) in 2004, the 3rd Diplomatic Practices Course for the PALOP (African Portuguese-Speaking Countries), promoted by the Institute Rio Branco do Brasil, in 2011, in Maputo city, Republic of Mozambique.
She also attended the X Course of International Relations Organized by the Higher Institute of International Relations “Raul Roa Garcia” in Habana – Cuba in 2012 and the IV Course for African Diplomats, promoted by the Alexandre Gusmão Foundation of Brazil in Brasilia in 2013.
Ambassador Esmeralda Mendonça actively participated in several works and missions at the Ministry of External Relations (MIREX), highlighting the latest duty, as Coordinator of the Secretariat’s Work at the International Conference on Maritime and Energy Security in 2015, Member for the MIREX Rotation Plan in 2018 and Member of the MIREX Public Tender in 2019.
She was part of the last two Angolan delegations to the 73rd and 74th Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) and was part of the team of International Observers of the Elections in the Federative Republic of Brazil in 2018.
She was also part of the Angolan delegations that participated in the inauguration Ceremony of the President of the United States of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in 2018 and the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, in 2019.
Ambassador Esmeralda Mendonça is married and mother of one child.
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BIOGRAPHIC SUMMARY OF HIS EXCELLENCY AMBASSADOR TÉTE ANTÓNIO
MINISTER OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Ambassador Téte António, born on January 22, 1955 in the municipality of Bembe, Province of Uíge, has a Master’s degree in International Economic Relations by the University of Kiev / Ukraine.
He attended courses in Preventive Diplomacy at Columbia University, New York, in Conflict Management, Resolution and Mediation at the Jimmy Carter Center, and Diplomacy at the Cairo Ministry of Foreign Affairs Institute in Egypt, United Nations Law and Practice at New York University, USA.
Before being appointed Minister, he served as Secretary of State for External Relations, Representative of the African Union to the United Nations, in New York, Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the African Union Commission, Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Angola to the United Nations, in New York.
Ambassador Téte António was also a member of the Angolan delegation to the United Nations Security Council (2003-2004), Principal Expert during the Angolan Presidency of the UN Peacebuilding Commission; Adviser to the President of the 59th Session of the UN General Assembly (2004-2005); Director of the Office of the Vice Minister of External Relations (1999-2002); African Union Political Observer to the United Nations Mission for the Organization of a Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) based in El Aiune, Western Sahara from 1997 to 1999; Diplomat at the Embassy of the Republic of Angola in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Permanent Mission to the African Union (1993-1997), Official of the African Union and Specialized Institutions Department of the Africa and Middle East Directorate of the Ministry of External Relations and Employee of IMPORTANG assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Trade.
Ambassador Téte António joined several African Union election observation missions and attended several study missions to countries emerged from conflict by the UN Peacebuilding Commission; Participated in several meetings of the UN, African Union, South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Economic Commission of Central African States (ECCAS) and the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA).
He speaks fluently and writes Portuguese, English, French, Russian, Kikongo and Lingala.
He co-authored the book entitled: “Angola at the UN Security Council (2003-2004), Experience and Practical Contribution to Conflict Resolution in Africa“.
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