Africa-Press – Angola. Adão Pinto, ambassador of Angola assigned to the Republic of Senegal, presented Thursday, April 14, in Dakar, the Figurative Letters, legal instruments that enable him to exercise the functions of maximum representative of the country in that African nation.
The Figurative Letters were delivered to Aïssata Tall Sall, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad, who addressed additional areas of potential cooperation between Angola and Senegal, such as hydrocarbon management, regional security, organization of municipal elections and the of Joint Action in the African Union, with a view to solving regional problems.
Adão Pinto was appointed by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, on 5 January last, to the post of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Angola in Senegal.
The diplomat did initial training in Angola. He has a law degree and his first master’s degree in international law from the University of Kiev, in the then Soviet Union. He also holds a Masters in Criminal Justice from Monroe College, in New York, United States of America.
He began his diplomatic career in 1989, as diplomatic attaché in the Directorate of Legal and Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he assumed particular and important responsibilities in monitoring the dossier inherent to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Among other activities in his diplomatic career, he has already performed the functions of consul general of Angola in New York and, before his appointment, he was a consultant to Téte António, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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