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

Bamanga Abbas Malloum, the new Permanent Representative of Chad 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. Malloum had been serving since October 2003 as the Director in charge of Chadians abroad at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and African Integration in N'Djamena.

From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Malloum was Chad's Consul General in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), while concurrently handling duties at the General Secretariat of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and African Integration. He also served as a Counsellor on political and diplomatic affairs of the Prime Minister from December 1997 to March 2000.

The new Permanent Representative of Chad served as Chargé d'Affaires at Chad's Diplomatic Mission in Rome (Italy) from 1992 to 1997, during which he also served as Permanent Representative of Chad to the United Nations organs which are based in Rome. He also served as Chad's Ambassador to Bonn (Germany) from May 1991 to April 1992, and then again from January to December 1997. He was the Head of the United Nations Section at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and African Integration from 1987 to 1988.

After completing his studies in 1980 in N'Djamena, Mr. Malloum followed graduate studies at the Faculty of International Law at the State University of Azerbaijan. Mr. Malloum speaks French, Russian, English, Arabic and Italian. He holds the chevalier de l'Ordre du mérite civique of Chad.

Born in Binder, Chad in 1956, Mr. Malloum is married and has two children.

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