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Assunção Afonso de Sousa dos Anjos (13 February 1946 – 12 December 2022) was an
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n diplomat who was Angola's Minister of External Relations from 2008 to 2010.


Biography

Anjos was born in
Luanda Luanda () is the capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport ...
and worked at the Ministry of External Relations as Director for Africa and the Middle East. He was Director of the Cabinet of the First Deputy Prime Minister, Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Planning, and then"Perfil do novo Ministro das Relações Exteriores Dr. Assunção dos Anjos"
, website of the Angolan embassy to Portugal . Director of the Cabinet of the President of the Republic from 1979
, Angola Press Agency, 2 October 2008 . to 1993, under
José Eduardo dos Santos José Eduardo dos Santos (; 28 August 1942 – 8 July 2022) was the president of Angola from 1979 to 2017. As president, dos Santos was also the commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and president of the People's Movement for the ...
. Subsequently, he was Ambassador to Spain until being dismissed from that post at his own request in November 1999. He was then Ambassador to France; in October 2002, while still holding that post, he strongly denied that Angola had any military presence in
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during that country's
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. Anjos was instead appointed Ambassador to Portugal in early August 2002 and was sworn into that post by President dos Santos on 18 December 2002. He was later appointed Minister of External Relations on 1 October 2008, having been recalled from his post as Ambassador to Portugal immediately beforehand. In 2010 he was replaced by Georges Chicoti and subsequently appointed a presidential adviser. Anjos was a member of the Central Committee of the
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( pt, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, Abbreviation, abbr. MPLA), for some years called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (), is an Angolan left-wi ...
(MPLA).


See also

* List of foreign ministers in 2010 *
Foreign relations of Andorra Since the establishment of sovereignty with the ratification of the constitution in 1993, Andorra has moved to become an active member of the international community. In July 1993, Andorra established its first diplomatic mission in the world to t ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:dos Anjos, Assuncao 1946 births 2022 deaths Foreign ministers of Angola Ambassadors of Angola to Portugal Ambassadors of Angola to France Ambassadors of Angola to Spain MPLA politicians 20th-century diplomats 21st-century diplomats 21st-century Angolan politicians People from Luanda