NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BRUNEI DARUSSALAM PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Alaihuddin Taha, the new Permanent Representative of Brunei Darussalam to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Mr. Taha's posting to Geneva follows a long career in the diplomatic service of Brunei Darussalam, most recently as acting private and confidential secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in January 2007. From 2001 to 2003, he served in the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and was appointed Director of that Department in January 2003. Prior to that, from 1995 to 2001, Mr. Taha was posted to the Brunei High Commission in London as First Secretary and Acting Minister Counsellor.

Mr. Taha began his career in Government service as an Administrative Officer at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in August 1984. Notably, he served as the Head of the Brunei Delegation to the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly in 1994, and was Second Secretary at the Brunei Embassy in Washington, D.C., for three years, from 1997 to 1990.

Mr. Taha graduated from North Staffordshire Polytechnic, United Kingdom, in 1984, with a degree in international studies.

Born on 29 May 1958, Mr. Taha is married, with one child.

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