The Andean Community is a free trade area with the objective of creating a customs union comprising the South American countries of Bolivia,Colombia,Ecuador,and Peru. The trade bloc was called the Andean Pact until 1996 and came into existence when the Cartagena Agreement was signed in 1969. Its headquarters are in Lima,Peru.
Charles Woodruff Yost was a career U.S. Ambassador who was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1971.
Samuel Rudolph Insanally was a Guyanese diplomat. He was Guyana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1987 onwards and was Minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana from 2001 to 2008.
Roy Chaderton Matos is a Venezuelan politician,lawyer,and diplomat. A graduate of the Universidad Central de Venezuela,Chaderton is one of the most experienced members of the Venezuelan diplomatic corps. He was foreign minister from May 2002 to July 2004 in the government of Hugo Chávez.
A failed coup d'état on 11 April 2002 saw the president of Venezuela,Hugo Chávez,ousted from office for 47 hours before being restored to power. Chávez was aided in his return to power by popular support and mobilization against the coup by loyal ranks in the military.
AlíRodríguez Araque was a Venezuelan politician,lawyer,and diplomat. He was the leader of the political party Patria Para Todos and occupied various positions in the government of President Hugo Chávez,such as oil advisor,General Secretary of OPEC,President of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA),Minister of External Relations and Ambassador to Cuba. He was appointed as Minister of Finance in June 2008. His last occupation was Ambassador of Venezuela in Cuba since 2014 until his death in 2018.
United States–Venezuela relations have traditionally been characterized by an important trade and investment relationship as well as cooperation in combating the production and transit of illegal drugs.
William Rivington Brownfield is a Career Ambassador in the United States Foreign Service and the former Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs as of January 10,2011. He has previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Chile,Venezuela,and Colombia.
The foreign policy of the Hugo Chávez administration concerns the policy initiatives made by Venezuela under its former President,Hugo Chávez,towards other states. Chávez's foreign policy may be roughly divided into that concerned with United States-Venezuela relations and that concerned with Venezuela's relations with other states,particularly those in Latin America and developing countries on other continents. In many respects the policies of the Chávez government were substantially different from the previous administrations that governed Venezuela.
Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño is a Venezuelan engineer,politician,and diplomat. He joined the board of Venezuelan state-owned petroleum company PDVSA in 2002 and served as company president from 2004 to 2014. He also served as Venezuela's Minister of Energy from 2002 to 2014. He was the longest-serving cabinet member under President Hugo Chávez. In 2014,he briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs,and then subsequently served as Venezuela's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Ramirez was fired as UN representative by Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro the evening of November 28,2017. He confirmed he had "resigned" at the request of Maduro on December 4,2017.
Yashar Teymur oglu Aliyev is an Azerbaijani diplomat who has been the Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations since 2014. Previously he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2002 to 2006 and Ambassador to the United States from 2006 to 2011. He was also Azerbaijan's first ambassador to Cuba (2006).
Michel Kafando is a Burkinabédiplomat who served as the transitional President of Burkina Faso from 2014 to 2015. He served in the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1983 and was the Permanent Representative (Ambassador) of Burkina Faso to the United Nations from 1998 to 2011.
James Curtis Struble is a former United States ambassador to Peru. Struble is a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor. He has worked in U.S. embassies in Ecuador,Thailand,Honduras,Spain,Russia and Mexico.
Israeli–Venezuelan relations refer to foreign relations between Israel and Venezuela. Both countries have no formal relations since 2009. Canada serves as Israel's protecting power in Venezuela through its embassy in Caracas,while Spain serves as Venezuela's protecting power in Israel through its embassy in Tel Aviv.
Guillermo John Roque Fernández de Soto Valderrama is a Colombian lawyer and diplomat,who has served as Secretary General of the Andean Community of Nations,Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia,Ambassador of Colombia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands,and designated-Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotenciary,Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations in New York.
Sameh Hassan Shoukry(Arabic:سامحشكري;born 20 October 1952) is an Egyptian diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2024. Previously,Shoukry served as the Ambassador of Egypt to the United States from 2008 to 2012.
Durga Prasad Bhattarai is a Nepali career diplomat who is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations in New York City. He serves concurrently as the Ambassador of Nepal to Bolivia,Ecuador,Peru and Venezuela.
Enrique A. Manalo is a Filipino diplomat currently serving as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Marcos Jr. administration since July 1,2022. He previously served in an acting role under the Duterte administration from March 9 to May 17,2017,when Perfecto Yasay Jr.'s ad-interim appointment confirmation was rejected by the Commission on Appointments due to citizenship issues. He also previously served as Philippine Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2011 to 2016,Undersecretary for Policy of the Department of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2020,and the 21st Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations from 2020 to 2022.
Nicolas de Rivière is a French diplomat who has been serving as the Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations since July 8,2019.
Kyaw Moe Tun is a Burmese diplomat who currently serves as the Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations. Prior to his appointment to UN,he had served as director-general of International Organizations and Economic Development Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2018.
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