- Alphonse Berns
Alphonse Berns (born
9 April 1952 ) is aLuxembourg ian diplomat and current Ambassador to Belgium and Permanent Representative to NATO.cite web |url=http://www.nato.int/cv/permrep/lu/berns-e.htm |title=NATO Permanent Representative of Luxembourg |accessdate=2008-01-19 |date=2007-01-14 |publisher=NATO ] He has previously been Ambassador to the United States (1991 – 98) andPermanent Representative to theUnited Nations inGeneva (2002 – 05).Honours
He is a recipient of numerous decorations, including:
*Luxembourg :
** Order of Merit (Officer)
**Order of the Oak Crown (Commander)
**Order of Adolphe of Nassau (Knight with Crown)
*Belgium : Order of the Crown (Grand Officer)
*Germany :Bundesverdienstkreuz (Commander)
*Greece : Order of the Phoenix (Grand Cross)
*Iceland :Order of the Falcon (Grand Knight with Star)
*Mexico :Order of the Aztec Eagle (Band)
*Norway :Royal Norwegian Order of Merit (Commander with Star)Footnotes
s-ttl|title=Ambassador to the United States
years=1991 – 1998
-s-ttl|title=Permanent Representative to NATO
years=2005 –
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