NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF LEBANON PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Najla Riachi Assaker, the new Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Assaker had been serving at the Lebanese Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Emigrants as Coordinator for the European-Mediterranean Partnership since 2003. From 2002 to 2003, she was Lebanon’s Consul General in Istanbul.

A career diplomat, Ms. Assaker’s other foreign assignments include serving as Counsellor at the Lebanese Embassy to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1992 to 2000; First Secretary at the Lebanese Embassy in Paris (1984-1991); and First Secretary at the Lebanese Embassy in Cairo from 1983 to 1984. She joined the Foreign Service in 1982 and has also held a number of positions at the Ministry in Beirut.

Ms. Assaker has degrees in political science and history from the University of Saint-Joseph in Beirut. She was born on 22 August, 1961 in Khonchara, Lebanon and is married.


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