New Permanent Representative of Portugal Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

João António da Costa Mira Gomes, the new Permanent Representative of Portugal to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. da Costa Mira Gomes had been serving as Portugal’s Ambassador to Spain since February 2020. He served as Ambassador to Germany from 2015 to 2020, and as Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels from 2010 to 2015.  He was also Embassy Secretary at the Portuguese Delegation to the Organization from 1987 to 1993.       

Mr. da Costa Mira Gomes was Portugal’s Secretary of State for National Defence and Maritime Affairs from 2006 to 2009.  He was Portugal’s Representative to the European Union’s Political and Security Committee and Permanent Representative to the Western European Union in Brussels in 2005 and 2006.  Other positions he has held include being Minister Counsellor at the Portuguese Embassy in Paris from 2001 to 2005; Chargé d’Affaires at the Portuguese Embassy in Sofia, on special assignment, in 2000 and 2001; and Chief of Staff to the Director-General for Foreign Policy in 1996 and 1997.

Mr. da Costa Mira Gomes has a law degree from the Portuguese Catholic University.  He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1984.  He was born in Lisbon on 4 December 1959 and is married with two children.

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