Evert Azimullah is a Surinamese diplomat, politician, and writer of Indian descent. He served as the Surinamese Ambassador to the Netherlands. Evert Guillaume Gonesh, formerly known as Evert Guillaume Azimullah is a Surinamese former diplomat. After completing of his secondary education in Suriname, Evert Gonesh studied Political and Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam with specialisations in International Relations and International Law. He was the first political scientist of Suriname and ran an internship at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague at the request of the Surinamese government. From 1972 he was a staff officer at the Bureau for Foreign Relations in Paramaribo. He was also a part-time lecturer of International Law and International Relations at the University of Suriname. In the context of the approaching independence of Suriname on November 25, 1975, Evert Gonesh was entrusted with the coordination of the secretariat of the Constitutional Commission. Gonesh was also chairman of Vlag- en Wapen commissie, a Commission to assess designs for the National Flag and Coat of Arms of independent Suriname. From 1980 to 1983 he was director of the Institute for International Law and International Relations in Paramaribo. In collaboration with the Brazilian Rio Branco Institute and the UNITAR, he organised the first Surinamese diplomatic training course in 1981. In 1983 followed his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Anton De Kom University of Suriname. Diplomat In 1988, Evert Gonesh was appointed Counsellor at the Embassy of Suriname in Brussels and from 1991 to 1994 he was Chargé d'Affaires ad Interim. In May 1994, Gonesh was transferred to the Netherlands as Ambassador and from 1998 onwards he was also Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in The Hague. He was also accredited as non-resident Ambassador of Suriname for Great Britain, Germany and Russia. As the first Surinamese ambassador to the Vatican he was in 1998 decorated by the pope with the Grand Cross in the Order of Saint Gregory. In 2001 he retired, receiving from the Queen of the Netherlands the decoration Grand Cross in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
