In one of these decrees, all dated 27 June, President José Maria Neves appoints Júlio César Freire de Morais to the position of ambassador of Cape Verde in Angola, with effect from 1 July, while another decree terminates his functions as representative to of the United Nations.
In two other decrees, Clara Manuela Delgado Jesus is appointed to the position of ambassador of Cape Verde in Austria, residing in Geneva, and as permanent representative at the offices of the United Nations and international organizations based in Vienna.
In a fourth presidential decree, Elias Lopes Andrade is appointed as the first ambassador of Cape Verde, residing in Morocco, in this case with effect from 1 June. The current ambassador of Cape Verde in Portugal, Eurico Correia Monteiro, ceased, on May 31, to accumulate the same functions in Morocco, four years later, according to a previously published presidential decree.
Cape Verde last year had 21 diplomatic representations and consular posts, 16 of which are embassies on different continents, two permanent missions and three career consulates or general consulates. Meanwhile, he created an embassy in Rabat and a consulate in Dakhla, Morocco.
The Cape Verdean Government announced in July 2022 that it was studying the creation of new embassies in strategic areas for the archipelago, as well as the institution of ambassadors for certain topics, also intending to extend the jurisdiction of current diplomatic missions.
"It is an exercise precisely to see to what extent we can optimize the effectiveness of diplomatic missions and other future ones, depending on the interest and vision that we have with foreign policy, in the sense of opening or not other embassies in different continents", explained the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Miryan Vieira.
The topic was addressed on July 26, 2022 at the meeting of the Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Regional Integration, in the city of Praia.
"This analysis is basically a diagnosis of what we already have and from there to foresee the opening or not of other embassies. But in the short term, what we are going to do is the extension of the jurisdiction of the current embassies, in order to optimize their action with other countries with which Cape Verde intends to have strategic partnerships", he added.
"We are not thinking, in the short term, of doing any closure of the embassies, but basically this first exercise is to actually have a perspective for the extension of the jurisdiction of the coverage of the current embassies that we have and to see, also according to the priority to be defined by the Government, the opening or reopening of other embassies", said Miryan Vieira on the same occasion.
