Norman Frederick Henderson Berlis (8 April 1914 – 10 May 2003) was a Canadian diplomat. He was Secretary and Officer-in-charge Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva then High Commissioner to Tanganyika, Tanzania then Uganda. He was also ambassador to Kenya and High Commissioner to Zanzibar[citation needed] and then the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland, Austria (where, since 1971, Canadian Ambassadors to Austria have been accredited to the Office of the United Nations at Vienna), and to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization then to Denmark. During his time as ambassador to Austria, on behalf of the Government of Canada he signed Canada's Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons with the International Atomic Energy Agency's Sigvard Eklund.

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Preceded byLeolyn Dana WilgressSecretary and Officer-in-charge Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva 1948-1952Succeeded byPaul Émile Renaud
Preceded byPosition createdHigh Commissioner to Tanganyika 1962-1964Succeeded byPosition abolished
Preceded byPosition createdHigh Commissioner to Tanzania 1962-1965Succeeded byAllan Sydney McGill
Preceded byJames WallHigh Commissioner to Uganda 1962-1965Succeeded byKarl Johansen
Preceded byRobert Wallace McLarenHigh Commissioner to Uganda 1963-Succeeded byAllan Sydney McGill
Preceded byAlan Pittman McLaineAmbassador to Kenya 1964-1965Succeeded byAllan Sydney McGill
Preceded byPosition createdHigh Commissioner to Zanzibar 1964-Succeeded byPosition abolished
Preceded byJohn Arnold IrwinAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland 1965-1967Succeeded byPamela Ann McDougall
Preceded byJohn Alexander McCordickAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria 1969-1973Succeeded byJohn Alan Beesley
Preceded byDonald Macalister CornettAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Denmark 1975-1979Succeeded byMarion Adams Macpherson

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