Norman Berlis Explained

Norman Frederick Henderson Berlis (8 April 191410 May 2003) was a Canadian diplomat.[1] [2] He was Secretary and Officer-in-charge Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva then High Commissioner to Tanganyika,[3] Tanzania[4] then Uganda.[4] He was also ambassador to Kenya[4] and High Commissioner to Zanzibar and then the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland,[5] Austria[6] (where, since 1971, Canadian Ambassadors to Austria have been accredited to the Office of the United Nations at Vienna), and to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization then to Denmark.[7] During his time as ambassador to Austria, on behalf of the Government of Canada he signed Canada's Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons with the International Atomic Energy Agency's Sigvard Eklund.[8]

Notes and references

  1. Web site: Norman F. H. Berlis . Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie . 13 May 2003 . 6 April 2013.
  2. Norman Berlis ECOSOC Representative Canada . Current World Leaders: Biography and News . 1974 . 17 . 5.
  3. News: Tanganyika Welcomes Envoy, 'Much To Learn From Canada' . . 3 May 1962 . . 6 April 2013 . 4.
  4. Canadian Geographical Journal . Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone . . 1965 . 70-71 . 180.
  5. News: Poland Greets Canadian Group . . 18 July 1966 . . 6 April 2013 . 8.
  6. Book: External Affairs . . 1970 . 389 . 22-23.
  7. News: 'Mr. Europe' ambassador to West Germany . . 16 July 1975 . . 6 April 2013 . 16.
  8. Web site: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. https://web.archive.org/web/20170828225059/https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/infcirc164.pdf. 28 Aug 2017.

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