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