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2005
Mauritius
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| The
10-year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action 10-14 January, 2005 |
| Ambassador
Enele Sosene Sopoaga is AOSIS Vice-chairman since January
2002. In 2001, he became the first Ambassador and Permanent Representative
of Tuvalu to the United Nations. A Political Economist, he received
his Masters in International Relations at the University of Sussex
in 1994. Prior to his current assignment, he was his country's Ambassador
to China, High Commissioner to Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa.
His work in foreign affairs also included the cooperation between
Tuvalu and the European Union.
Since 2001, Ambassador Sopoaga has been the AOSIS representative to the Bureau of the UNFCCC and to the coalition on renewable energy. Ambassador Sopoaga has been involved extensively in high-level negotiations on development issues such as climate change and global warming particularly mitigations and adaptation to their adverse effects that greatly affect the small island developing States. He was acting chairman from December 2005 to March 2006. He was re-elected as Vice-Chairman 10 March 2006. Maria de Fatima Lima Da Veiga, the Permanent Representative of Cape Verde to the United Nations, was also elected Vice-Chairman of AOSIS, 10 March 2006. Before her current appointment, she served from October 2002 to April 2004 as Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Communities of Cape Verde. She also served previously as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 2001 to 2002 and Ambassador of Cape Verde for Cuba from 1999 to 2001. From 1995 to 1999, Ms. Lima Da Veiga was Director Cabinet of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Prior to that, she served in a number of progressively responsible positions after joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980. Born in Sao Vicente, Cape Verde, on 22 June 1957, Ms. Lima Da Veiga undertook high studies in Anglo-American civilization and language at the Universite d’Aix-ex-Provence, France. She received post-university training in development and diplomacy at the German Foundation, Berlin, and participated in training on diplomatic advancement organized in Praia by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde in cooperation with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Rio Branco Institute of Brazil. She has also taken part in seminars on diplomacy and personnel management. Ms. Lima Da Veiga is a member of Cape Verde’s National Commission of the Interstate Committee for the Fight Against Drought in the Sahel; officer-in-charge for the elaboration of technical studies relating to Cape Verde’s external politics and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and a member of the jury of the competition for the promotion of diplomatic and technical personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has served as a member of Cape Verde’s delegation to many international meetings and as representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on several joint commissions and inter-governmental meetings on cooperation. Ms. Lima Da Veiga speaks Portuguese, English, French and Spanish. The Permanent Representative of Cape
Verde is married and has two children. |