Mauro Vieira

Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira (born 15 February 1951) is a Brazilian diplomat serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil since 1 January 2023 under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Vieira occupied the same office between 2015 and 2016 during President Dilma Rousseff's second term.

Biography Vieira was born in Niterói. He has a bachelor's degree in law from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), and graduated from the Brazilian diplomatic academy, the Rio Branco Institute, in 1974.

Career As a career diplomat he served at the Brazilian embassy in Washington, D.C., from 1978 to 1982 and at the Brazilian Mission to the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) in Montevideo from 1982 to 1985. After a period back in Brasília, he then served at the Brazilian embassy in Mexico City (1990-1992) and at the Embassy in Paris (1995-1999).

He was nominated Brazil's ambassador to Argentina in Buenos Aires from 2004 to 2010 and since then was the Brazilian Ambassador to the United States up until President Dilma Rousseff announced his nomination as Foreign Minister on 31 December 2014. In December 2023, when asked, given that Brazil is a signatory to the Rome Statute, Putin would be arrested if he comes to Brazil, he said: "We have to see this in each case... I don't know. I don't think so. I also hope not. I don't know. We will not take any initiative to make this happen ... there must be an order" for such a step.

In March 2024, Vieira visited Ramallah in the West Bank. He condemned the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and the bombing of Gaza during the Gaza war.

Honours Grand Officer of the Order of Military Merit (O.M.M.) (2005) Member of the Order of Roraima (O.R.) (2016) Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (11 July 2003)