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,from 1999 to 2000 Barreto served on the National Political Commission of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT) [3] [4] as a Member of the Executive Committee and as Director of the Department of Finance and Resources. [5] [6] She handled the finances of the CNRT abroad in Portugal. [7]
In April 2001,Barreto and JoséRamos-Horta (later the President of East Timor) travelled to The Hague in the Netherlands as delegates to 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. [8]
Barreto became 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,Portugal. [9] Barreto served as Ambassador to Portugal from July 2002 to December 2005, [1] [10] [11] presenting her credentials to President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio. [12] In 2003,she spoke at the Iberian Model United Nations (lMUN) Conference at the Carlucci American International School in Lisbon. [13]
On 6 March 2007,Barreto was awarded the rank of Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry of Portugal. [14] She has promoted the learning of the Portuguese language in East Timor. [15]
On 15 December 2016,Barreto was appointed Ambassador of East Timor to Vietnam. [16] [17] She was welcomed by the Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh in Hanoi. [18] [19] As ambassador,she promoted foreign business investment in East Timor [20] [21] and has discussed the development of bilateral trade agreements with the Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc. [22] In 2020,she participated in the Hanoi Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO)'s writing competition,winning a third place prize. [23]
In 2023,Barreto was a guest at the opening of an art exhibition of works by East Timorese artist Abel Júpiter at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School in Portugal. [24]
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