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

Andras Dekany, the new Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Dekany had been serving as Head of the European Union (EU) External Relations and Crisis Situations Section at the Department of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, and a senior professional advisor since 2004. He was Political Counselor at the Embassy of Hungary in Washington D.C. from 1999 to 2004, and Professional Advisor at the Department of International Organizations from 1994 to 1999. Mr. Dekany served as Human Rights Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations in New York from 1990 to 1994.

A career diplomat, Mr. Dekany also served as Desk Officer at the Department of Regional Cooperation from 1988 to 1990; Press and Cultural Attache at the Embassy of Hungary in Bucharest, Romania from 1983 to 1988; Head of the Romania Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1981 to 1983; Press Attache at the Embassy of Hungary in Bucharest from 1979 to 1981; and Desk Officer on the Romania Desk from 1978 to 1979.

Mr. Dekany graduated in 1978, Summa cum Laude, from the International Law Faculty of the Moscow State Institute on International Relations. He has participated as a delegate in several sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, and as Deputy Head of the delegation of Hungary at several sessions of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. He was born on 13 October, 1954 in Budapest, and is married with two daughters.


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