NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CHINA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

Ma Zhaoxu, the new Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Between 2013 and 2016, Mr. Ma served as the Ambassador of China to Australia, and from 2011 to 2013, he was the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs. He held the post of the Director-General of the Information Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2009 and 2011, and served as the Deputy Director-General of the Policy Research Department between 2004 and 2009. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Ma was a Minister Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Belgium and the Mission to the European Community, and in 2001-2002 he served as a Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Ma was the Deputy Director-General of the Central Foreign Affairs Office of the Communist Party of China between 1999 and 2001, and also held several roles at the State Council Foreign Affairs Office from 1996 until 1999. In 1995-1996 he was the Deputy Director of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1987, Mr. Ma held functions of an Attaché at the Department of International Organizations and Conferences, Attaché and then Third Secretary at the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations, and Third Secretary at the Department of International Organizations and Conferences.

Mr. Ma completed advanced studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1995, and holds a PhD degree. He was born in the Heilongjiang Province of China in September 1963.


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