New Permanent Observer of the Council of Europe Presents Letter of Nomination to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Miroslav Papa, the new Permanent Observer of the Council of Europe to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Mr. Papa currently holds the post of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to the United Nations.  

Within the Council of Europe, the Croatian national served as Director of Political Affairs and External Relations from 2023 to 2025.  He was the Director of the Private Office of the Secretary General and the Deputy Secretary General from 2019 to 2023, Chair of the Committee of Ministers' Deputies in 2018, and Vice Chair of the Governing Board of the Council of Europe Development Bank from 2015 to 2018.

During his three-decade-long diplomatic career, he has held several high-level posts in the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, including Director for United Nations, Global Issues and International Organizations from 2012 to 2013; and Head of Department for International Organizations and Human Rights from 2011 to 2012.
From 2013 to 2018, he served as Permanent Representative of Croatia to the Council of Europe in the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and he also held mandates in the Permanent Representation of Croatia to the Council of Europe from 1999 to 2002 and the Mission of Croatia to the European Union from 2004 to 2007.

Mr. Papa was born in Zagreb, Croatia, on 14 March 1970.  He holds a graduate degree in law from the University of Zagreb as well as a Master of International Law from the University of Lund.  Besides his mother tongue Croatian, he is fluent in English and French and speaks German.  He is married and has one child.
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