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President issues message of condolence following the death of Eduardo Koloma
3:02 CAT | 28 Aug 2020
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The President of the Republic, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, has issued a message of condolences on the death of Professor Eduardo José Bacião Koloma, career diplomat and former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
In his message, the president says that the Republic of Mozambique has lost one of its best children, one of the national liberation struggle pioneer generation, a founder of the independent Mozambican nation and precursor of Mozambique’s diplomacy as a free country.
“His name has been closely linked with the history of Mozambican diplomacy since independence. With a graduate, masters and PhD degrees in international law from the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic, Professor Koloma became renowned as a lawyer at the service of the young nation. He was a member of a select group of Mozambicans who founded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which he served as a prominent legal adviser,” President Nyusi says in his message.
Professor Koloma, President Nyusi continues, not only actively participated in the design of the national legal architecture, but also contributed to the configuration of international law, especially concerning the law of the sea, during his eleven-year leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Directorate of Legal and Consular Affairs.
“In this hour of sadness, on behalf of the people and Government of Mozambique and on my own behalf, I address the most heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family, especially his widow, Ms. Judite Fernando Xavier Guila Koloma, and three children,” the message concludes.
Source: Presidency of the Republic
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