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Jun 22, 1957 São Vicente, Cape Verde 67 years old
Cape Verdean politician and diplomat
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About Fátima Veiga
- Maria de Fátima da Veiga (born June 22, 1957) is a Cape Verdean politician and diplomat.
- Veiga was the foreign minister from 2002–2004.
- She was the first female foreign minister in Cape Verde's history. Veiga was born on the island of São Vicente.
- She later attended some higher education institutes including the University of Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, the German Foundation in Berlin, the Prague and in Brazil.
- In 1980, she started to work for the Cape Verdean Ministry of External Affairs.
- Between 2001 and 2002, she was the Ambassador of Cape Verde to Cuba.
- When she was a foreign minister, she visited Paris from January 9 to 12, 2002. For a few years in 2007 she was the Ambassador of Cape Verde to the United States.
- She presented her credentials to President Bush on August 16, 2007.Since February 20, 2014, she is the Capeverdean ambassador to France.
- She succeeded José Armando Filomeno Ferreira Duarte who was the longest serving ambassador to France.
