Hendrick Vaal Neto

{{short description|Angolan diplomat}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|11|22}} | birth_place = Kwanza Sul | death_date =  | death_place = | caption = | order = | office1 = Minister of Social Communication of Angola | term_start1 = 1993 | term_end1 = 2005 | predecessor1 = Rui Óscar de Carvalho | successor1 = {{interlanguage link|Manuel Antonio Rabelais|pt}} | caption2 = | order2 = | office2 = {{flag|Angola}}n<br>Ambassador<br>to {{flag|Egypt}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.angolaeg.net/index.php/2015-06-11-11-01-28/ambassador|title=Ambassador}}</ref> | term_start2 = January 27, 2006 | term_end2 = September 12, 2011 | predecessor2 = Kamu de Almeida | successor2 = António da Costa Fernandes | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}

'''Pedro Hendrick Vaal Neto''' (born 1944) is an Angolan former diplomat. A member of the National Liberation Front of Angola until the 1990s. Until September 12, 2011, Neto was the Angolan ambassador to Egypt.

Studying in Caconda, Ambriz, Huambo, Benguela and Luanda, he participated in various political seminars in Switzerland, Zambia and the United States before dedicating his life to the liberation of Angola in 1959, living in the woods to escape persecution. Over thirteen years, he travelled to more than eighty countries around the world. In 1963 he was persecuted by the PIDE and joined the National Liberation Front of Angola in the north of Angola and moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Fragoso |first=Garrido |date=25 April 2023 |title=Hendrick Vaal Neto destaca acção militar dos movimentos de libertação |url=https://www.jornaldeangola.ao/ao/noticias/hendrick-vaal-neto-destaca-accao-militar-dos-movimentos-de-libertacao/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111151916/https://www.jornaldeangola.ao/ao/noticias/hendrick-vaal-neto-destaca-accao-militar-dos-movimentos-de-libertacao/ |archive-date=11 November 2023 |access-date=11 November 2023 |website=Jornal de Angola |language=pt}}</ref> where he attended the Institut National D'Etudes Politiques. Until July 21, 1981, he lived in Lisbon. He was made Minister of Social Communication<ref name=":0" /> on June 1, 1999 with a presidential decree. From September 12, 2011, his ambassadorship to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Oman and Lebanon ended and he was appointed a representative to Zimbabwe.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 September 2011 |title=Ambassador Hendrick Vaal Neto bids farewell to Egyptian authorities |url=http://www.portalangop.co.ao/angola/en_us/noticias/politica/2011/8/37/Ambassador-Hendrick-Vaal-Neto-bids-farewell-Egyptian-authorities,23060561-1988-4126-8634-72a3d2eccdb3.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310023539/http://www.portalangop.co.ao/angola/en_us/noticias/politica/2011/8/37/Ambassador-Hendrick-Vaal-Neto-bids-farewell-Egyptian-authorities,23060561-1988-4126-8634-72a3d2eccdb3.html |archive-date=10 March 2016 |access-date=11 November 2023 |website=www.portalangop.co.ao}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=James |first=W. Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4A5NM4IeBXgC&dq=%22Hendrick+Vaal+Neto%22&pg=PA189 |title=Historical Dictionary of Angola |date=2011-05-05 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7458-9 |page=189 |language=en}}</ref>

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