5 years 1 month ago
NEW PERMANENT OBSERVER OF WEST AFRICAN ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION PRESENTS LETTER OF NOMINATION TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
21 June 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Iba Mar Oulare, the new Permanent Observer of the West African Economic and Monetary Union to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Oulare, who is Senegalese, had been serving as Director of the Cabinet of the President of the West African Economic and Monetary Union since 2012. From 2005 to 2012, he was a Technical Counsellor in the Cabinet of the…
5 years 2 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
15 June 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Lazaro Ekua Avomo, the new Permanent Representative of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Ekua Avomo had been serving as Counsellor at the Embassy of Equatorial Guinea in Brasilia, Brazil from 2013 to 2015. He served at the Embassy in Brasilia from 2005 to 2010 as Third Secretary, and then as Second Secretary from 2010 to 2013.
After joining the diplomatic…
5 years 2 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF KAZAKHSTAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
09 June 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Zhanar Aitzhanova, the new Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Aitzhanova had been serving as Minister of Economic Integration of Kazakhstan since 2011. From 2010 to 2011, she served as Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Kazakhstan. She was Vice Minister of Industry and Trade of Kazakhstan from 2003 to…
5 years 2 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GREECE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
26 May 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Anna Korka, the new Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Korka had been serving as Greece’s Ambassador to Tunis since April 2013. She served as the Director of the Diplomatic Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Greece from July 2012 to April 2013. Other foreign posts include working as Greece’s Consul General…
5 years 3 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ARGENTINA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
17 May 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Hector Marcelo Cima, the new Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Cima had been Deputy Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations Office at Geneva since 2015. A career diplomat, his foreign posts include working at the Embassy of Argentina in Washington D.C., United States, from 1998 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2008…
5 years 3 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SUDAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
06 May 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Mustafa Osman Ismail Elamin, the new Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Elamin had been Minister of Investment from 2012 to 2014. He served as a Presidential Advisor from 2005 to 2012. He was Foreign Minister of Sudan from 1998 to 2005, after serving as Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1998.…
5 years 3 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF KYRGYZSTAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
25 April 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Daniiar Mukashev, the new Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Mukashev had been serving as Director of the Department of International Organizations and Security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan since 2013. He was Director of the Western Countries Department at the Ministry from 2012 to 2013, after…
5 years 3 months ago
NEW PERMANENT OBSERVER OF THE HOLY SEE PRESENTS LETTER OF NOMINATION TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
21 April 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the new Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Jurkovic had been serving as Apostolic Nuncio to the Russian Federation from 2011 to 2016, to Ukraine from 2004 to 2011, and to Belarus from 2001 to 2004. On 6 October 2001, he was ordained as Titular Archbishop of Corbavia.
Archbishop Jurkovic was ordained as a…
5 years 4 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MALAWI PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
11 April 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Robert Dufter Salama, the new Permanent Representative of Malawi to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Mr. Salama is an export trade and investment promotion specialist who worked at the Malawi Export Promotion Council as a Senior Manager from 2003 until he retired in 2011. He was a Trade Attache at the Malawi High Commission in Harare, Zimbabwe from 1995 to 2003. He worked at the Malawi Export…
5 years 4 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CHINA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
06 April 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Ma Zhaoxu, the new Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Between 2013 and 2016, Mr. Ma served as the Ambassador of China to Australia, and from 2011 to 2013, he was the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs. He held the post of the Director-General of the Information Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2009 and 2011, and served as the Deputy…
