Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Sérgio Vieira de Mello (March 15, 1948 - August 19, 2003) was a Brazilian diplomat who worked for the United Nations (UN) for over 30 years, earning respect and praise around the world for his efforts in the sometimes amorphous humanitarian programs of the UN. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Vieira de Mello studied philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris before embarking on a career in the UN when he was 21. He was fluent in English and French, as well as his native Portuguese. Download high resolution version (640x982, 97 KB)Sérgio Vieira de Mello Image received from UN/DPI Photo: You can certainly use the image for the encyclopedia but please credit as UN/DPI Photo. ... Download high resolution version (640x982, 97 KB)Sérgio Vieira de Mello Image received from UN/DPI Photo: You can certainly use the image for the encyclopedia but please credit as UN/DPI Photo. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... This article is about the United Nations, for other uses of UN see UN (disambiguation) Official languages English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic Secretary-General Kofi Annan (since 1997) Established October 24, 1945 Member states 191 Headquarters New York City, NY, USA Official site http://www. ... A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ... The World in plate carrée projection The World The World (XXI) is a Major Arcana card in Tarot In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is Age of Man. ... Humanitarianism is the view that all people should be treated with the respect and dignity they deserve as human beings, and that advancing the well-being of humanity is a noble goal. ... Ipanema beach Cristo Redentor A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and a city in southeastern Brazil. ... ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

He joined the U.N. High Commission for Refugees in 1969, serving in Bangladesh during its independence in 1971. Following the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus he worked with refugees. He spent three years in charge of UNHCR operations in Mozambique during the civil war that followed its independence from Portugal in 1975, and three more in Peru. Mr. Vieira de Mello has also served as Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for Cambodia, being the first and only UN Representative to hold talks with the Khmer Rouge. He became senior political adviser to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon between 1981 and 1983. Vieira de Mello then returned to the UNHCR, working at its head office in Geneva for a decade. The early 1990s found him in involved in the clearing of land mines in Cambodia, and then in Yugoslavia. After working on the refugee problem in central Africa, he was made Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees in 1996 and he became UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator two years later. He would hold this position simultaneously with others until January 2001. He was a special UN envoy in Kosovo after the end of Serbian control of the former Yugoslav province in 1999. Vieira de Mello was instrumental in dealing with the issue of boat people in Hong Kong. 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Before becoming the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2002, he was the UN Transitional Administrator in East Timor from December 1999 to May 2002, guiding that former Portuguese colony occupied by Indonesia to independence. He was also special representative in Kosovo for an initial period of two months and was the coordinator of humanitarian operations at UN headquarters. The purpose of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights involves the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide through direct contact with individual governments and the provision of technical assistance where appropriate. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state (or city, in ancient times). ... Kosovo and Metohia (Serbian: Косово и Метохија / Kosovo i Metohija, Albanian: Kosovë / Kosova), in English most often called just Kosovo, is a province of Serbia. ... In Egyptian mythology, Month is an alternate spelling for Menthu. ... United Nations headquarters, view from East River United Nations headquarters in New York City The United Nations headquarters is a distinctive complex in New York City that has served as the United Nationss headquarters since its completion in 1952. ...

In May 2003 Vieira de Mello was appointed as the UN Special Representative in Iraq, an appointment initially intended to last for four months. He had been working in this position when he was killed in the Canal Hotel bombing on the afternoon of August 19, 2003. 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for May, 2003. ... The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 22 people and wounded over 100. ... August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He was mentioned in some circles as a suitable candidate for UN Secretary General. His death was mourned in the world: Switzerland, France, Brazil (where three days of official mourning were declared), East Timor (because of his work in Timor), Portugal , Cambodia and many other places where his actions had brought him a reputation for extreme efficiency, liveliness and love of peace. A street in Dili, the capital of East Timor was named in his honour. The United Nations Secretary-General is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal divisions of the United Nations. ... The concept of peace ranks among the most controversial in our time. ... Dili, also spelled Dilli or Dilly, is the capital of East Timor. ...

Vieira de Mello was married and is survived by two sons. He was buried at Geneva's Cimetière des Rois (Cemetery of Kings) Switzerland. Marriage is a relationship and bond, most commonly between a man and a woman, that plays a key role in the definition of many families. ... Geneva: the Mont Blanc bridge over the Rhône River and St Peters Cathedral Geneva (French: Genève) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman, but the Genevois are fond of calling it Lac de Genève) empties into the... The Cimetière des Rois (French for Cemetery of Kings) is a cemetery in Geneva, Switzerland, where people such as John Calvin, the great Reformer of the Swiss Reformation, Jorge Luis Borges, the famed Argentine fantasy writer, and Sergio Vieira De Mello, the former United Nations diplomat to Iraq, are...

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