Assunção dos Anjos
{{Short description|Angolan diplomat (1946–2022)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}}
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| caption = Anjos in 2009
| office = Advisor to the President of Angola
| term_start = 2010
| term_end = 2022
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| office1 = Ambassador of Angola to Spain
| term_start1 = 1993
| term_end1 = 1999
| predecessor1 = Kamu de Almeida
| successor1 = Gen. Pedro Sebastião
| office2 = Ambassador of Angola to France
| term_start2 = 1999
| term_end2 = 2002
| predecessor2 = Boaventura Cardoso
| successor2 = Ambrósio Lukoki
| office3 = Ambassador of Angola to Portugal
| term_start3 = 2002
| term_end3 = 2008
| predecessor3 = Osvaldo Serra Van-Dúnem
| successor3 = José Marcos Barrica
| office4 = Foreign Minister of Angola
| term_start4 = 2008
| term_end4 = 2010
| predecessor4 = João Miranda
| successor4 = Georges Chicoti
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|2|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Luanda, Portuguese West Africa (now Angola)
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|12|12|1946|2|13|df=y}}
| death_place = Madrid, Spain
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| nationality = Angolan
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Assunção Afonso de Sousa dos Anjos (13 February 1946 – 12 December 2022){{Cite web|url=http://www.embaixadadeangola.org/embaixador.htm|title = Embaixada da República de Angola em Portugal}}[https://www.jornaldeangola.ao/ao/noticias/morreu-assuncao-dos-anjos-ex-ministro-das-relacoes-exteriores/ Morreu Assunção dos Anjos, ex-ministro das Relações Exteriores] {{in lang|pt}} was an Angolan diplomat who was Angola's Minister of External Relations from 2008 to 2010.
Biography
Anjos was born in Luanda and worked at the Ministry of External Relations as Director for Africa and the Middle East. He was Director of the Cabinet of the First Deputy Prime Minister, Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Planning, and then[http://embangola.artedesign-net.pt/content.php?id=noticia&nid=1003 "Perfil do novo Ministro das Relações Exteriores Dr. Assunção dos Anjos"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021110558/http://embangola.artedesign-net.pt/content.php?id=noticia&nid=1003 |date=21 October 2008 }}, website of the Angolan embassy to Portugal {{in lang|pt}}. Director of the Cabinet of the President of the Republic from 1979[http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/pt_pt/noticias/politica/Perfil-alguns-ministros-governo-Angola,dc0184d8-de02-455f-9ccc-873a3bc410ab.html "Perfil de alguns ministros do governo de Angola"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005025027/http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/pt_pt/noticias/politica/Perfil-alguns-ministros-governo-Angola%2Cdc0184d8-de02-455f-9ccc-873a3bc410ab.html |date=5 October 2008 }}, Angola Press Agency, 2 October 2008 {{in lang|pt}}. to 1993, under José Eduardo dos Santos. Subsequently, he was Ambassador to Spain until being dismissed from that post at his own request in November 1999."Angola: Top aide, seven envoys "relieved of their posts at their own request"", Radio Nacional de Angola, Luanda, 24 November 1999. He was then Ambassador to France; in October 2002, while still holding that post, he strongly denied that Angola had any military presence in Côte d'Ivoire during that country's civil war.[http://www.mg.co.za/article/2002-01-01-angola-denies-involvement-in-ivory-coast-conflict "Angola denies involvement in Ivory Coast conflict"], Sapa-AFP, October 2002.
Anjos was instead appointed Ambassador to Portugal in early August 2002[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-25949831_ITM "Angolan government nominates new ambassador to Portugal"], BBC Monitoring International Reports, 5 August 2002. and was sworn into that post by President dos Santos on 18 December 2002.[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27030672_ITM "Angola: President swears in new provincial governors, intelligence chief"], BBC Monitoring International Reports, 18 December 2002. He was later appointed Minister of External Relations on 1 October 2008, having been recalled from his post as Ambassador to Portugal immediately beforehand.[http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/pt_pt/noticias/politica/Presidente-Republica-nomeia-novos-membros-Governo,66d43d4c-52b4-47ff-b9fc-4cc7fdd13e40.html "Presidente da República nomeia novos membros do Governo"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002153012/http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/pt_pt/noticias/politica/Presidente-Republica-nomeia-novos-membros-Governo%2C66d43d4c-52b4-47ff-b9fc-4cc7fdd13e40.html |date=2 October 2008 }}, Angola Press, 1 October 2008 {{in lang|pt}}. In 2010 he was replaced by Georges Chicoti and subsequently appointed a presidential adviser.{{Cite web|url=http://www.club-k.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6878:assuncao-dos-anjos..|title = Assunção dos Anjos nomeado consultor do PR}}
Anjos was a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
==See also==
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{{s-bef|before=Kamu de Almeida}}
{{s-ttl|title=Ambassador of Angola to Spain|years=1993–1999}}
{{s-aft|after=Gen. Pedro Sebastião}}
{{s-bef|before=Boaventura Cardoso}}
{{s-ttl|title=Ambassador of Angola to France|years=1999–2002}}
{{s-aft|after=Ambrósio Lukoki}}
{{s-bef|before=Osvaldo Serra Van-Dúnem}}
{{s-ttl|title=Ambassador of Angola to Portugal|years=2002–2008}}
{{s-aft|after=José Marcos Barrica}}
{{s-bef|before=João Bernardo de Miranda}}
{{s-ttl|title=Foreign Minister of Angola|years=2008–26 November 2010}}
{{s-aft|after=Georges Rebelo Chicoti}}
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{{Ministers of External Relations of Angola}}
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