Norman Berlis

Norman Frederick Henderson Berlis (8 April 1914  10 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]

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Leolyn Dana Wilgress
Secretary and Officer-in-charge Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva
1948-1952
Succeeded by
Paul Émile Renaud
Preceded by
Position created
High Commissioner to Tanganyika
1962-1964
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Preceded by
Position created
High Commissioner to Tanzania
1962-1965
Succeeded by
Allan Sydney McGill
Preceded by
James Wall
High Commissioner to Uganda
1962-1965
Succeeded by
Karl Johansen
Preceded by
Robert Wallace McLaren
High Commissioner to Uganda
1963-
Succeeded by
Allan Sydney McGill
Preceded by
Alan Pittman McLaine
Ambassador to Kenya
1964-1965
Succeeded by
Allan Sydney McGill
Preceded by
Position created
High Commissioner to Zanzibar
1964-
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Preceded by
John Arnold Irwin
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland
1965-1967
Succeeded by
Pamela Ann McDougall
Preceded by
John Alexander McCordick
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria[9]
1969-1973
Succeeded by
John Alan Beesley
Preceded by
Donald Macalister Cornett
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Denmark
1975-1979
Succeeded by
Marion Adams Macpherson

Notes and references

  1. "Norman F. H. Berlis". Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie. 13 May 2003. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  2. "Norman Berlis ECOSOC Representative Canada". Current World Leaders: Biography and News. 17: 5. 1974.
  3. "Tanganyika Welcomes Envoy, 'Much To Learn From Canada'". Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. 3 May 1962. p. 4. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  4. Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone (1965). "Canadian Geographical Journal". Canadian Geographical Journal. 70-71: 180.
  5. "Poland Greets Canadian Group". Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. 18 July 1966. p. 8. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  6. External Affairs. 22-23. Canadian Department of External Affairs. 1970. p. 389.
  7. "'Mr. Europe' ambassador to West Germany". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Canadian Press. 16 July 1975. p. 16. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  8. {{url=https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/infcirc164.pdf}}
  9. 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.
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