Ana Maria Gomes

Ana Maria Rosa Martins Gomes, better known as Ana Gomes, GCC , (born 9 February 1954 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese politician, who suspended her career as a diplomat to enter party politics in 2003. In 2004, she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (Portuguese Socialist Party member of the European Socialist Party) and was reelected in June 2009. She is married with one daughter, three stepchildren and six grandchildren.

Ana Gomes is currently a City Council member of Sintra.

She has been a career diplomat since 1980 and served in the Portuguese Missions at the UN in New York and Geneva, and also in the Embassies in Tokyo and London. Between 1999 and 2003, she was Head of Mission and Ambassador in Jakarta, where she played an important role both in the process leading up to the independence of East Timor and in the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Portugal and Indonesia.[1]

In the European Parliament, her main areas of activity are: human rights, security and defence, international relations, gender issues and development. In 2010 she signed the Spinelli Group manifesto.

European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2004[2]

Positions (2009-2014)

Positions (2004-2009)

Reports

The European Union's role in Iraq (Foreign Affairs Committee) European Parliament recommendation to the Council of 13 March 2008 (2007/2181(INI))

China's policy and its effects on Africa (Development Committee) European Parliament resolution of 23 April 2008 (2007/2255(INI))

Women in International Politics (Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee) European Parliament resolution of 16 November 2007 (2006/2057(INI))

Small Arms and Light Weapons and Sustainable Development (ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly) Resolution of the ACP-EU JPA (ACP-EU/3892/06/fin), by Ana Gomes (Portugal) and William Duguid (Barbados)

Missions

As an MEP, Ana Gomes participated in a number of European Parliament missions to Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chad, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor, Kosovo, Lebanon, Indonesia (including Aceh), Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Sudan (Darfur), Turkey, USA, etc.

Ana Gomes took part in the following Election Observation Missions (EOM):

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Diplomatic career

Political activities

Ana Gomes has been a member of the Socialist Party since March 18, 2002.

Political responsibilities:

Committee of the Socialist Party

Academic background

1979 - Law Degree, Classical University of Lisbon

1981 - Community Law Course, National Institute of Administration, Lisbon

1988 - Summer course at the International Institute for Human Rights, University of Strasbourg

Publications

Numerous articles published in the Courrier Internacional, Diário de Notícias, Expresso, Jornal de Leiria, Jornal de Notícias, Público and Visão.

Book Todo-o-Terreno - 4 Anos de Reflexões[3] (RCP Edições, November 2008, Lisbon)

Awards

Membership in Civil Society Organisations

Decorations

References

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