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

Ahmet Üzümcü, the new Permanent Representative of Turkey 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, since 2004, Mr. Üzümcü had been serving as Deputy Undersecretary of State for Bilateral Political Affairs. From June 2002 to August 2004, he was the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Council in Brussels. Mr. Üzümcü held the post of Ambassador of Turkey to Israel from 1999 to 2002. For the three years prior to that, from 1996 to 1999, he was the head of personnel at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara.

From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Üzümcü served in an international capacity as a staff member of NATO. Prior to that, he had been pursuing his diplomatic career since 1976, with various posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as serving in the Turkish Embassy in Vienna (1979-1982) and as a Consul in Alep, Syria (1982-1984).

In 1975, Mr. Üzümcü graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences of
Ankara University.

Mr. Üzümcü was born in Armutlu, Turkey on 30 August 1951.


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