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 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

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