1. Jaime Gama graduated as a Licentiate in Philosophy from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon.
14 Facts About Jaime Gama
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Jaime Gama was involved in the opposition to the fascist Estado Novo regime, since his youth, and was first arrested, aged only 18, due to an article published in the local press.
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Jaime Gama was a member of the socialist CEUD in the campaign for the 1969 legislative elections, won by the National Union, due to massive fraud.
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Jaime Gama was a journalist of the opposition newspaper Republica, in the last years of the fascist regime.
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Jaime Gama was a founder of the Socialist Party, in the German exile of Bad-Munstereifel.
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Jaime Gama was elected for his party as a Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic for the Azores from 1975 and for Lisbon from 1983.
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Jaime Gama returned to the same ministry, in Antonio Guterres' governments, from 1995 to 2002, and was Minister of National Defence, in 1999, and Minister of State from 1999 to 2002.
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Jaime Gama was President of the United Nations Security Council during June 1998.
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Jaime Gama was the chairman of the Presidency of the Council of Europe from 1 January 2002 until 6 April 2002, when he lost his post as Foreign Minister when the new government of Jose Manuel Durao Barroso took office in Portugal.
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Jaime Gama negotiated and signed the New York Agreements between the UN, Indonesia, and Portugal that led to the self-determination and independence of East Timor.
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Jaime Gama was the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2002 when Angola reached peace after a 27-year civil war.
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Jaime Gama proposed, negotiated and launched the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries.
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Jaime Gama is Senior Strategic Counsel at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy and business advisory firm led by former US Secretary of State in the Clinton administration Madeleine Albright and former Commerce Secretary and Kellogg Company CEO Carlos Gutierrez.
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Jaime Gama married in Lisbon on 18 September 1971 Alda Taborda and their son, Joao Taborda da Gama, born in 1977, is a Tax Law Professor of the Law School of the Catholic University of Portugal.