New Permanent Representative of Guinea-Bissau Presents Credentials

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)

The new Permanent Representative of Guinea-Bissau to the United Nations, Fernando Delfim da Silva, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

Before his appointment, Mr. Delfim da Silva was a philosophy and history lecturer at the Portuguese School of Bissau and the Liceu João XXIII since 2015, having previously been Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Communities from 2013 to 2014, a position he also held from 1996 to 1998.

He was the adviser to the President of the Republic on political and diplomatic affairs between 2002 and 2005, Secretary of State for Transport and Communication in 1994 and Minister for National Education in 1993.  He was concurrently Secretary of State for Youth Culture and Sports, a position he first held in 1991.  In 1990 he was General Director of Administration and Finance for the Presidency of the Council of State.

Mr. Delfim da Silva obtained a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the State University of Leningrad in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1990, and studied economy and international relations at the Universidade Lusíadas in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2002.

Born in Bissau on 13 May 1956, Mr. Delfim da Silva is married and has four children.