Norman Frederick Henderson Berlis (8 April 1914 – 10 May 2003) was a Canadian diplomat.[1][2] He was Secretary and Officer-in-charge Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva then High Commissioner to Tanganyika,[3] Tanzania[4] then Uganda.[4] He was also ambassador to Kenya[4] and High Commissioner to Zanzibar[citation needed] and then the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland,[5] Austria[6] (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.[7] 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.[8]
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Secretary and Officer-in-charge Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva 1948-1952 |
Succeeded by Paul Émile Renaud |
| Preceded by Position created |
High Commissioner to Tanganyika 1962-1964 |
Succeeded by Position abolished |
| Preceded by Position created |
High Commissioner to Tanzania 1962-1965 |
Succeeded by Allan Sydney McGill |
| Preceded by James Wall |
High Commissioner to Uganda 1962-1965 |
Succeeded by Karl Johansen |
| Preceded by Robert Wallace McLaren |
High Commissioner to Uganda 1963- |
Succeeded by Allan Sydney McGill |
| Preceded by Alan Pittman McLaine |
Ambassador to Kenya 1964-1965 |
Succeeded by Allan Sydney McGill |
| Preceded by Position created |
High Commissioner to Zanzibar 1964- |
Succeeded by Position abolished |
| Preceded by John Arnold Irwin |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland 1965-1967 |
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| Preceded by John Alexander McCordick |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria[9] 1969-1973 |
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| Preceded by Donald Macalister Cornett |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Denmark 1975-1979 |
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