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Víctor Borges
Víctor Manuel Barbosa Borges (born 24 May 1955 in Assomada, Santa Catarina, Santiago) is a Cape Verdean politician. In April 2004, he visited Paris, France. He made another visit to France and met Brigitte Girardin on October 7, 2005. On October 30, 2006, he made his third visit to Paris and signed the Partnership Document. In November 2007, he signed a Special Partnership with the European Union. Borges visited Paris again in 2008 and met with Alain Joyandet, Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophony and Brice Hortefeux Brice Hortefeux (; born 11 May 1958) is a conservative French politician. He was Minister of the Interior, Overseas Territories and Territorial collectivities. He was previously Minister for Labour, Labour Relations, the Family, Solidarity and ..., Minister for Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Development Solidarity. After four years as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was replaced and left out of the government that was named on ...
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Fátima Veiga
Maria de Fátima da Veiga (born June 22, 1957) is a Cape Verdean politician and diplomat. Veiga was the foreign minister from 2002 to 2004. She was the first female foreign minister in Cape Verde's history. Veiga was born on the island of São Vicente. She later attended some higher education institutes including the University of Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, the German Foundation in Berlin, the Prague and in Brazil. In 1980, she started to work for the Cape Verdean Ministry of External Affairs. Between 2001 and 2002, she was the Ambassador of Cape Verde to Cuba. When she was a foreign minister, she visited Paris from January 9 to 12, 2002. For a few years in 2007 she was the Ambassador of Cape Verde to the United States. She presented her credentials to President George Bush on August 16, 2007. Since February 20, 2014, she is the Capeverdean ambassador to France. She succeeded José Armando Filomeno Ferreira Duarte who was the longest serving ambassador to F ...
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ...
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1955 Births
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first Nuclear marine propulsion, nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18–January 20, 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – T ...
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Foreign Minister Of Cape Verde
This is a list of foreign ministers of Cape Verde. *1975–1981: Abílio Duarte *1981–1991: Silvino Manuel da Luz *1991–1993: Jorge Carlos Fonseca *1993–1995: Manuel Casimiro de Jesus Chantre *1995–1996: José Tomás Veiga *1996–1998: Amílcar Spencer Lopes *1998–1999: José Luís Jesus *1999–2001: Rui Alberto de Figueiredo Soares *2001–2002: Manuel Inocêncio Sousa *2002–2004: Fátima Veiga *2004–2008: Víctor Borges *2008–2011: José Brito *2011–2014: Jorge Borges *2014–2016: Jorge Tolentino *2016–2021: Luís Filipe Tavares *2021–present: Rui Alberto de Figueiredo Soares SourcesRulers.org – Foreign ministers A–D {{DEFAULTSORT:Minister of Foreign Affairs (Cape Verde) Foreign Foreign Ministers In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and relations, diplomacy, bilateral, and multilatera ...
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Brice Hortefeux
Brice Hortefeux (; born 11 May 1958) is a conservative French politician. He was Minister of the Interior, Overseas Territories and Territorial collectivities. He was previously Minister for Labour, Labour Relations, the Family, Solidarity and Urban Affairs and Minister-Delegate for Local Government at the Ministry of the Interior and was a Member of the European Parliament from 2011 to 2024. Early life and education Hortefeux was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine but was raised in Auvergne. * Degree in private law (1982) * Master's degree in public law (1984) * Studied at Sciences Po Political career Early beginnings * Local authority administrator (1986–1994) (worked in Neuilly-sur-Seine for mayor Nicolas Sarkozy) * Regional councillor of Auvergne : Since 1992. Reelected in 1998, 2004, 2010. * Prefect, given responsibility for a government public service mission (1995) * Special adviser in the office of the President of the Senate (1998–1999) * Head of office o ...
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Alain Joyandet
Alain Joyandet (born 15 January 1954) is a French politician who was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs (France), Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophony in the government of François Fillon from 18 March 2008 to July 2010. Prior to that, he was CEO of the Société Nouvelle des Éditions Comtoises (SNEC), a publisher of weekly newspapers and journals. He is a journalist by training. Joyandet was mayor of Vesoul from 1995 to 2012 and Senate of France, senator of Franche-Comté from 1995 to 2002. In 2010 Franche-Comté regional election, 2010, Joyandet won the Union for a popular movement, UMP nomination for Franche-Comté, President of Franche-Comté, but lost to French Socialist Party, socialist candidate Marie-Guite Dufay in the general election. Political career Governmental functions Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophony : 2008-2010 (Resignation on 4 July 2010). Electoral mandates ''Senate of France'' Senator of Haute-Saône : 1995-2002 (Resi ...
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated population of over 449million as of 2024. The EU is often described as a ''sui generis'' political entity combining characteristics of both a federation and a confederation. Containing 5.5% of the world population in 2023, EU member states generated a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of around €17.935 trillion in 2024, accounting for approximately one sixth of global economic output. Its cornerstone, the European Union Customs Union, Customs Union, paved the way to establishing European Single Market, an internal single market based on standardised European Union law, legal framework and legislation that applies in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where the states ...
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Brigitte Girardin
Brigitte Girardin (; born 12 January 1953 in Verdun, Meuse (department), Meuse, France) is a French diplomat and politician. She was the minister of Overseas France under Jacques Chirac from 7 May 2002 to 2 June 2005. Biography In 1976, Girardin first worked for the French government at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1978, she was in charge of economic relations between Francophone nations in Africa. In early 1998, Girardin was appointed as the Senior Administrator of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands until January 2000. In 2002, Girardin was appointed as the Minister of Overseas under Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government. In May 2003, Girardin met with the Spanish Secretary for European Affairs, Ramón de Miguel, and Portuguese Deputy Foreign Minister, Carlos da Costa Neves to demand the European Union add aid for the countries' ultra-peripheral regions to the constitution. In 2005, Girardin worked as the Minister for Cooperation, Development and the Fr ...
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Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ...
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José Brito
José Brito (born 19 March 1944) is a Cape Verdean politician. Biography Brito was born in Dakar, Senegal (then a French colony) to Cape Verdean parents. Later in his years, he moved to Cape Verde. Brito holds a bachelor of science in mathematics and master of sciences in physics and chemistry at the University of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast and a high diploma studies in chemical engineering at the Institut français du pétrole in France. Brito worked as vice-president of governmental relations for Ocean Energy, Oil Company in Texas, USA from 1992 to 1996. From 2001 to 2006, he served as Cape Verde's ambassador to the United States, Canada, and Mexico, before taking up the position of Minister of Economy, Growth and Competitiveness from 2006 to 2008. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the nation of Cape Verde from 2008 to 2011. See also *Foreign relations of Cape Verde Foreign may refer to: Government * Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries * ...
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Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands lie between west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa. The List of islands of Cape Verde, Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Isles. The Cape Verde archipelago was uninhabited until the 15th century, when Portuguese Empire, Portuguese explorers colonized the islands, establishing one of the first Age of Discovery, European settlements in the tropics. Due to its strategic position, Cape Verde became a significant location in the Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade during the 16th and 17th centuries. The islands experienced economic growth during this period, driven by their role by the rapid emergence of merchants, priva ...
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