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30.º aniversário da adesão de Portugal às Comunidades Europeias
30.º aniversário da adesão de Portugal às Comunidades Europeias
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Decorations awarded by the President of the Republic to individualities from the Portuguese Communities and to foreign citizens, to celebrate the National Day of Portugal

Celebrating the National Day of Portugal, of Camões and of the Portuguese Communities, the President of the Republic awarded decorations to several individualities from the Portuguese Diaspora Communities and foreign citizens that will opportunely be handed to them.
Following is the list of the decorated individualities:

National Orders:
Order of Prince Henry the Navigator
• Robert W. Wilson – USA (Grand Cross)
• Dennis Cardoza – USA (Grand Officer)
• António Vieira dos Santos Caeiro – China (Commander)
• Renato Roldão – China (Officer)

Orders of Civil Merit:
Order of Merit
• Abraão Freitas Valinhas – Brazil (Commander)
• Albano Parente – Brazil (Commander)
• António Andrade Mendes – Brazil (Commander)
• António Manuel Oliveira Soares de Castro - Poland (Commander)
• António Nuno Cabeleira de Sousa - France (Commander)
• Claudinor de Oliveira Ferreira Salomão – USA (Commander)
• João Carlos Reis Freitas – United Kingdom (Commander)
• José da Silva – Switzerland (Commander)
• José Ivo Gouveia de Sousa – South Africa (Commander)
• José Maria Petinga Eustáquio – Canada (Commander)
• Mário José Andrade Ferreira – South Africa (Commander)
• Silvério Soares da Silva – South Africa (Commander)
• Alberto Carvalho – USA (Officer)
• Elsa Godfrin – France (Officer)
• José Maria de Freitas Cardoso – Canada (Officer)
• Maria dos Anjos Vidigal Castro - Australia (Officer)

Entrepreneurial Order of Merit
Grade of Industrial Merit
• Carlos Alberto da Cunha Oliveira – Mozambique (Commander)

09.06.2012

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