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

Moussa Bocar Ly, the new Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Ly has been simultaneously serving, since 1993, as Councillor to the Embassy of Senegal in Rome, and as Duty Permanent Representative of Senegal to the international organizations based there, including the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Within this context, from 2003 to 2006, Mr. Ly was a member of the WFP Administrative Council. From November 1999 to November 2001, he was the President of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters of FAO, and served as Vice President of that Committee from 1997 to 1999.

From 1991 to 1993 Mr. Ly was a technical adviser to the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, charged with economic, legal and technical questions. From September 1989 to October 1991, he was posted to the Permanent Mission of Senegal to the United Nations Office at Geneva as First Secretary. Prior to that, he was posted to the Senegalese Mission in New York from 1985 to 1989, where he was a member of the Senegalese delegation to the Security Council, charged with questions involving southern Africa, from 1988 to 1989. Mr. Ly began his diplomatic career in 1980 in the International Treaties and Conventions Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Ly holds a number of graduate degrees and certificates in international affairs, diplomacy and law, including a graduate degree in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva (1991), a Master's in international relations from St. John's University in New York (1989), a degree from the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM) diplomatic division (1980), and a Master's in public law from the University of Dakar.

Born on 2 December 1954 in Mauritania, Mr. Ly is married with five children.


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