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Norman Frederick Henderson Berlis (8 April 1914 – 10 May 2003) was a Canadian diplomat. He was Secretary and Officer-in-charge Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva then High Commissioner to Tanganyika, Tanzania then Uganda. He was also ambassador to Kenya and High Commissioner to Zanzibar and then the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland, Austria (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. 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.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded byLeolyn Dana Wilgress Secretary and Officer-in-charge Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva
1948-1952 		Succeeded byPaul Émile Renaud
Preceded byPosition created High Commissioner to Tanganyika
1962-1964 		Succeeded byPosition abolished
Preceded byPosition created High Commissioner to Tanzania
1962-1965 		Succeeded byAllan Sydney McGill
Preceded byJames Wall High Commissioner to Uganda
1962-1965 		Succeeded byKarl Johansen
Preceded byRobert Wallace McLaren High Commissioner to Uganda
1963- 		Succeeded byAllan Sydney McGill
Preceded byAlan Pittman McLaine Ambassador to Kenya
1964-1965 		Succeeded byAllan Sydney McGill
Preceded byPosition created High Commissioner to Zanzibar
1964- 		Succeeded byPosition abolished
Preceded byJohn Arnold Irwin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland
1965-1967 		Succeeded byPamela Ann McDougall
Preceded byJohn Alexander McCordick Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria
1969-1973 		Succeeded byJohn Alan Beesley
Preceded byDonald Macalister Cornett Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Denmark
1975-1979 		Succeeded byMarion 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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