Joseph Gilles André Couvrette

André Couvrette (15 January 1934) is a former Canadian diplomat. He was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Sweden, and Greece. Before his first ambassadorship, he was posted to Rome, Italy (1959–1962), Lagos, Nigeria (1965–1967), and Paris, France (1967–1968). In his home country, he was Chief of Protocol and Assistant Under Secretary of State for External Affairs.

External links

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Complete List of Posts
Couvrette has written online memoirs available at http://plusdetranger.blogspot.com/.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Raoul Grenier	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Guinea 1974-1976	Succeeded by Jacques J.A. Asselin
Preceded by Raoul Grenier	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mali 1974-1976	Succeeded by Jacques J.A. Asselin
Preceded by Raoul Grenier	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mauritania 1974-1977	Succeeded by Jacques J.A. Asselin
Preceded by Raoul Jean Grenier	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Senegal 1974-1977	Succeeded by Gabriel-Marie Frédéric Lessard
Preceded by Raoul Grenier	High Commissioner to Gambia 1974-1975	Succeeded by Jacques J.A. Asselin
Preceded by Raoul Grenier	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Guinea-Bissau 1975-1977	Succeeded by Jacques J.A. Asselin
Preceded by Raoul Grenier	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Cape Verde 1976-1977	Succeeded by Jacques J.A. Asselin
Preceded by Léopold Henri Amyot	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Syria 1977-1978	Succeeded by Théodore Jean Arcand
Preceded by Léopold Henri Amyot	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Jordan 1978-1978	Succeeded by Théodore Jean Arcand
Preceded by Howard Barham Singleton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Lebanon 1977-1978	Succeeded by Théodore Jean Arcand
Preceded by Kenneth Charles Brown	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Sweden 1981-1983	Succeeded by Thomas Delworth
Preceded by Edward Henry Woodford	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Greece 1985-1989	Succeeded by Ernest Hébert

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