Leopoldo Borda Roldan

Leopoldo Borda Roldán was a Colombian engineer and career diplomat who served as the 1st Ambassador of Colombia to India. Prior to this inaugural post, he also served as Ambassador of Colombia to Bolivia and held other administrative posts in the foreign service including serving as the 7th Consul General of Colombia in Paris,[1] and served as Chargé d'Affaires for the Colombian missions in Japan, Sweden, and Norway.[2][3]

Leopoldo Borda Roldán
1st Colombia Ambassador to India
In office
7 July 1959 (1959-07-07) – 1961
PresidentAlberto Lleras Camargo
Preceded by
  • Office created
Succeeded byMiguel López Pumarejo
Colombia Ambassador to Bolivia
In office
6 December 1957 (1957-12-06) – 20 May 1959 (1959-05-20)
PresidentGabriel París Gordillo
Preceded byRodolfo García y García
Succeeded byMiguel Antonio Santamaría Dávila
Personal details
Born(1898-08-09)9 August 1898
Bogota, Colombia
Died1 January 1977(1977-01-01) (aged 78)
Bogota Colombia
NationalityColombian
Spouse(s)Suzanne Weiprecht Berthelot
ChildrenHelena, Daniel, Jacqueline, Miguel Leopoldo
ProfessionEngineer and Career Diplomat
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Borda and the second or maternal family name is Roldán.

Ambassadorship in Bolivia

Borda was named Ambassador of Colombia to Bolivia on 14 September 1957, replacing the exiting Ambassador Rodolfo García y García. He arrived in La Paz later that same year on 26 November taking official charge of the Embassy, and presented his letters of credence to President Hernán Siles Zuazo at the Palacio Quemado.[4][5][6]

Ambassadorship in India

In pursuit of grounding the recent established diplomatic relations between Colombia and India on 19 January 1959, President Alberto Lleras Camargo, by means of Decree 1446 of 1959 on 20 May 1959, pronounced the establishment of a diplomatic mission in India at the Embassy level and named Borda as the 1st Ambassador of Colombia to India. Borda arrived in New Delhi on 22 June of the same year; on 27 June he met with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in an official ceremony, and the next month on 7 July Borda presented his letter of credence to President Rajendra Prasad at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.[7][8]

References
  1. "Historico de Consules Generales" [List of Consuls General] (in Spanish). Embassy of Colombia in France. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  2. Japan-Manchoukuo yearbook. Tokyo: Japan-Manchoukuo Year Book Co. 1938. OCLC 145151719.
  3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1941). Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores [Memoir on Foreign Affairs] (in Spanish). Bogotá: National Printing Office of Colombia. pp. 212, 270. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1958). Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores: Presentada al Congreso Nacional [Memoir on Foreign Affairs: Presented to National Congress] (in Spanish). Bogotá: National Printing Office of Colombia. p. 49. OCLC 9094971. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  5. "Hace 50 Años" [50 Years Ago]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 14 September 2007. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  6. Siles Zuazo, Hernán; Barraú Peláez, Manuel (6 December 1957). "Decreto Supremo N° 4794" [Supreme Decree No. 4794] (in Spanish). Gaceta Oficial del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  7. García, Pío; Restrepo, Roberto, eds. (November 2009). "10: Cincuenta Años de Relaciones Entre India y Colombia" [10: Fifty Years of Relations Between India and Colombia]. Colombia e India en Perspectiva [Colombia and India in Perspective] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Embassy of India in Colombia. pp. 224–225. ISBN 978-958-99297-0-4. OCLC 710015730. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  8. Isaza Merchán, María Clara. 20 Años de Relaciones Entre Colombia y La India: Presente y Perspectivas [50 Years of Relations Between Colombia and India: Present and Perspectives] (PDF) (in Spanish). Diplomatic Academy of San Carlos, Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affair. Retrieved 2 May 2011.


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