Portuguese politician and diplomat (born 1964)
João Titterington Gomes Cravinho (born 16 June 1964) is a Portuguese diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister António Costa between 2022 and 2024. Previously, he had served as Minister of National Defence.
Career.
During his time in the European External Action Service, Cravinho served as Head of the European Union's delegation to Brazil from 2015 until 2018 and India from 2011 until 2015. Prior to that, he occupied the post of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in José Sócrates's government.
Under Cravinho's leadership as Minister of National Defence, the Portuguese Air Force purchased five KC-390 military transport aircraft and a flight simulator from Brazilian aerospace company Embraer for 827 million euros ($932 million) in 2019.
In 2020, Cravinho announced Portugal's army would help Mozambique train local soldiers, marines and other forces to tackle an insurgency in Cabo Delgado. By May 2021, Cravinho and his Mozambican counterpart Jaime Neto signed an agreement in which Portugal committed to increasing its number of troops in Mozambique to 80 by 2026 and training Mozambican soldiers to tackle the insurgency, share intelligence and help the country use drones to track the militants' movements.
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