Pascoela Barreto

Pascoela Barreto
Ambassador of East Timor to Portugal
In office
July 2002 – December 2005
PresidentXanana Gusmão
Director of the Department of Finance and Resources of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT)
In office
1999–2000
Personal details
BornJune 1946 (age 79)
Bazartete, Portuguese Timor
Alma materInstituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE)
Occupationcivil servant and diplomat
AwardsOrder of Liberty
Order of Prince Henry

Pascoela Barreto dos Santos is an East Timorese civil servant and diplomat. She served on the National Political Commission of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT) and was the first Ambassador of the newly established country of East Timor. She has served as Ambassador of East Timor to Portugal and Vietnam.

Biography

Barreto was born in Bazartete, Portuguese Timor. In 1970, Barreto moved to Portugal to study sociology at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) in Lisbon.[1]

Barreto worked at the General Directorate of Land Transport in Portugal [pt].[1] On 11 March 2000, she was awarded the civic honour of Commander of the Order of Liberty of Portugal.[2]

After the Portuguese withdrew from Timor, from 1999 to 2000 Barreto served on the National Political Commission of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT)[3][4] as a Member of the Executive Committee and as Director of the Department of Finance and Resources.[5][6] She handled the finances of the CNRT abroad in Portugal.[7]

In April 2001, Barreto and José Ramos-Horta (later the President of East Timor) travelled to The Hague in the Netherlands as delegates to a conference on East Timor building a new nation state, which was organised by the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden and the Platform for Asian Studies in Amsterdam.[8]

Barreto became the first Ambassador from the newly established country of East Timor, with the Embassy in Portugal replacing the dissolved office of the CNRT in Lisbon, Portugal.[9] Barreto served as Ambassador to Portugal from July 2002 to December 2005,[1][10][11] presenting her credentials to President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio.[12] In 2003, she spoke at the Iberian Model United Nations (lMUN) Conference at the Carlucci American International School in Lisbon.[13]

On 6 March 2007, Barreto was awarded the rank of Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry of Portugal.[14] She has promoted the learning of the Portuguese language in East Timor.[15]

On 15 December 2016, Barreto was appointed Ambassador of East Timor to Vietnam.[16][17] She was welcomed by the Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh in Hanoi.[18][19] As ambassador, she promoted foreign business investment in East Timor[20][21] and has discussed the development of bilateral trade agreements with the Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.[22] In 2020, she participated in the Hanoi Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO)'s writing competition, winning a third place prize.[23]

In 2023, Barreto was a guest at the opening of an art exhibition of works by East Timorese artist Abel Júpiter at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School in Portugal.[24]

Personal life

Barreto was married to Amilcar Dias.[25]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Primeira embaixada de Timor-Leste abre hoje em Lisboa". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). 5 July 2002. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  2. ^ "ENTIDADES NACIONAIS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  3. ^ Nuttall, Ruth (14 June 2021). Political Continuity and Conflict in East Timor: A History of the 2006 Crisis. Routledge. p. 2001. ISBN 978-1-000-38104-7.
  4. ^ Veloso, Maria Angela Carrascalão de Freitas (2002). Timor: os anos da resistência (in Brazilian Portuguese). Mensagem. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-972-8730-01-7.
  5. ^ "Timor Leste Ministers". Guide2womenleaders.com. Archived from the original on 19 June 2025. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  6. ^ Kiernan, Ben (2008). Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor. Transaction Publishers. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-4128-0669-5.
  7. ^ Indonesia News Service. Indonesia Publications. 2000. p. 35.
  8. ^ "UNPO: East Timor: José Ramos-Horta visits UNPO". old.unpo.org. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  9. ^ "East Timor opens diplomatic mission in Lisbon". East Timor and Indonesia Action Network. 2001. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  10. ^ "East Timor opens its first embassy in Portugal". The Irish Times. 5 July 2002. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  11. ^ "Língua portuguesa dominante em menos de um década em Timor-Leste". Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (in Portuguese). 3 October 2005. Archived from the original on 19 June 2025. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  12. ^ "EMBAIXADA DE TIMOR-LESTE". www.cmjornal.pt (in European Portuguese). 5 July 2002. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  13. ^ Menezes, Flavia (2 January 2003). "Largest IMUN conference also first to go virtual". The Anglo-Portuguese News. Archived from the original on 28 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  14. ^ "ENTIDADES ESTRANGEIRAS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Archived from the original on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  15. ^ Jannisa, Gudmund. (2008) "Språksituationen i Östtimor: babylonisk språkförbistring eller multilingvistisk resurs?". Merdeka & Östtimorinformation, (39), 7-10. (in Swedish) Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  16. ^ Embaixadora Pascoela Barreto Guterres dos Santos. SAPO Fotos. SAPO. (In Portuguese) 15 December 2016.
  17. ^ "President receives newly-accredited ambassadors". VietNamNet News (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  18. ^ "Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh receives Timor Leste Ambassador". Vietnam+ (in Vietnamese). 15 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  19. ^ "Vietnam - Timor Oriental: Vers une coopération efficace". Nhan Dan Online (in Vietnamese). 16 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  20. ^ Minh, Tuan (21 February 2017). "Promoting trade and investment cooperation with Morocco, East Timor". Hanoitimes. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  21. ^ "Timor Leste firms welcomed in Vietnam: PM". Asia Pacific Solidarity Network (APSN). 21 February 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  22. ^ "PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc menerima Dubes Timor Leste". RADIO SUARA VIETNAM. 20 February 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  23. ^ "Hanoi honors 16 winners of 1,010th founding anniversary contest". Hanoitimes. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  24. ^ "Memórias de Timor em exposição na ESTC". www.ipl.pt (in European Portuguese). 12 May 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  25. ^ Chrystello, Chrys (21 September 2018). "morreu um timorense de corpo e alma AMILCAR DIAS (marido da Pascoela Barreto)". blogue.lusofonias.net (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 10 November 2025.
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