Pascoela Barreto

Pascoela Barreto
Ambassador of East Timor to Portugal
In office
July 2002 – December 2005
Personal details
BornJune 1946
Bazartete, Portuguese Timor
Alma materInstituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE)
Occupationcivil servant and diplomat
AwardsOrder of Liberty
Order of Prince Henry

Pascoela Barreto dos Santos is an East Timorese civil servant and diplomat. She served on the National Political Commission of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT) and was the first Ambassador of the newly established country of East Timor. She has served as Ambassador of East Timor to Portugal and Vietnam.

Biography

Barreto was born in Bazartete, Portuguese Timor. In 1970, Barreto moved to Portugal to study sociology at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) in Lisbon.[1]

Barreto worked at the General Directorate of Land Transport in Portugal [pt].[1] On 11 March 2000, she was awarded the civic honour of Commander of the Order of Liberty of Portugal.[2]

After the Portuguese withdrew from Timor, Barreto served on the National Political Commission of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT) as a Member of the Executive Committee and as Director of the Department of Finance and Resources.[3][4] In April 2001, Barreto and José Ramos-Horta travelled to The Hague in the Netherlands for a conference on East Timor building a new nation state, which was organised by the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden and the Platform for Asian Studies in Amsterdam.[5]

Barreto was the first Ambassador from the newly established country of East Timor, with the Embassy in Portugal replacing the dissolved office of the CNRT in Lisbon.[6] Barreto served as Ambassador to Portugal from July 2002 to December 2005,[1][7][8] presenting her credentials to President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio.[9] In 2003, she spoke at the Iberian Model United Nations (lMUN) Conference at the Carlucci American International School in Lisbon.[10]

On 6 March 2007, Barreto was awarded the rank of Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry of Portugal.[11] She has promoted the learning of the Portuguese language in East Timor.[12]

On 15 December 2016, Barreto was appointed Ambassador of East Timor to Vietnam.[13][14] She was welcomed by the Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh in Hanoi.[15] As ambassador, she promoted foreign business investment in East Timor.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Primeira embaixada de Timor-Leste abre hoje em Lisboa". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). 5 July 2002. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  2. ^ "ENTIDADES NACIONAIS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Timor Leste Ministers". Guide2womenleaders.com. Archived from the original on 19 June 2025. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  4. ^ Kiernan, Ben (2008). Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor. Transaction Publishers. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-4128-0669-5.
  5. ^ "UNPO: East Timor: José Ramos-Horta visits UNPO". old.unpo.org. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  6. ^ "East Timor opens diplomatic mission in Lisbon". East Timor and Indonesia Action Network. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  7. ^ "East Timor opens its first embassy in Portugal". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  8. ^ "Língua portuguesa dominante em menos de um década em Timor-Leste". Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (in Portuguese). 3 October 2005. Archived from the original on 19 June 2025. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  9. ^ "EMBAIXADA DE TIMOR-LESTE". www.cmjornal.pt (in European Portuguese). 5 July 2002. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  10. ^ Menezes, Flavia (2 January 2003). "Largest IMUN conference also first to go virtual". The Anglo-Portuguese News. Archived from the original on 28 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  11. ^ "ENTIDADES ESTRANGEIRAS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Archived from the original on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  12. ^ Jannisa, Gudmund. (2008) "Språksituationen i Östtimor: babylonisk språkförbistring eller multilingvistisk resurs?". Merdeka & Östtimorinformation, (39), 7-10. (in Swedish) Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  13. ^ Embaixadora Pascoela Barreto Guterres dos Santos. SAPO Fotos. SAPO. (In Portuguese) 15 December 2016.
  14. ^ "Báo VietnamNet". VietNamNet News (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  15. ^ "Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh receives Timor Leste Ambassador". Vietnam+ (in Vietnamese). 15 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  16. ^ Minh, Tuan. "Promoting trade and investment cooperation with Morocco, East Timor". Hanoitimes. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
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