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^[citation needed] 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

1. "Norman F. H. Berlis". Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie. 13 May 2003. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
2. "Norman Berlis ECOSOC Representative Canada". Current World Leaders: Biography and News. 17: 5. 1974.
3. "Tanganyika Welcomes Envoy, 'Much To Learn From Canada'". Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. 3 May 1962. p. 4. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
4. Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone (1965). "Canadian Geographical Journal". Canadian Geographical Journal. 70–71: 180.
5. "Poland Greets Canadian Group". Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. 18 July 1966. p. 8. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
6. External Affairs. Vol. 22–23. Canadian Department of External Affairs. 1970. p. 389.
7. "'Mr. Europe' ambassador to West Germany". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Canadian Press. 16 July 1975. p. 16. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
8. "Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2017.
9. 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.

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