Salvador Soares dos Reis Pires
Pires in 2019
Minister of Public Works
In office
22 June 2018 – 22 March 2022
Prime MinisterTaur Matan Ruak
Preceded byVacant
Succeeded byAbel Pires da Silva
Personal details
Political partyPeople's Liberation Party

Salvador Eugénio Soares dos Reis Pires is an East Timorese politician. Between June 2018 and March 2022, he was the Minister of Public Works, serving in the VIII Constitutional Government of East Timor headed by Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak.[1][2][3][4]

Pires is an alumnus of the Australian Development Scholarship program. He graduated in 2007 from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia, with a Master of Architecture with first class honours.[5]

During a speech at a ground-breaking ceremony on 11 October 2018 to officially mark the commencement of a US$22.62 million grant by the European Union (UN) as additional financing to help rehabilitate targeted municipal roads under East Timor's ongoing Road Network Upgrading Project, Pires said:

"The Government of Timor-Leste will continue implementing infrastructure plans such as the network of roads in the country, which includes the construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance of national, municipal, and rural roads. This specific network roads project will improve national connectivity that will boost economic and social development activities in the area and the country in general."[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Structure of the VIII Constitutional Government". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "Timor-Leste's Eighth Constitutional Government (updated 17 July 2020)". La'o Hamutuk website (in English and Tetum). La'o Hamutuk: Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysis. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  3. ↑ Martins, Filomeno (22 March 2022). "'Lú Olo' calls on newly appointed cabinet members to better serve Timorese people". Tatoli. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  4. ↑ "Swearing-in of the four new members of Government". Government of Timor-Leste. 22 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. ↑ "Former Minister of Public Works – Australia Awards Timor-Leste". www.australiaawardstl.org. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  6. ↑ "EU Provides Additional Financing for Municipal Road Upgrades in Timor-Leste". Asian Development Bank. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2023.

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