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

Mounina Mint Abdellah, the new Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Since 1992, Ms. Mint Abdellah has been working at the Ministry for Women's Affairs of Mauritania. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, from September 2005 to July 2006, she had been working as the Coordinator of the Nutrition Section of the Nutrition and Health Support Project, and from 2002 to 2005, she headed the NUTRICOM project. In 2001 and 2002, Ms. Mint Abdellah was the Director of Women's Advancement. Appointed Technical Counsellor in 1997, Ms. Mint Abdellah served with the Ministry in that capacity until 2001. Among other responsibilities during this period, from 1999 to 2004, Ms. Mint Abdellah was a member of the Monitoring Council of the Commissioner on Human Rights, the Fight against Poverty and Integration, and, since 1992, she has acted as National Coordinator for preparation and follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995.

Prior to her work at the Ministry for Women's Affairs, from 1984 to 1990, Ms. Mint Abellah served under the Ministry of Education, as a professor and as an Administrator for secondary and higher education.

Ms. Mint Abellah received her master's in physical chemistry in 1984.

Born on 31 December 1959, Ms. Mint Abdellah is married with four children.


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