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

Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed, the new Permanent Representative of Maldives 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. Mohamed had been serving as Deputy High Commissioner at the High Commission of Maldives in Malaysia. He was the Assistant Executive Director, and then the Executive Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007. Other posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs include Director-General for Foreign Relations (2000); Director for Foreign Relations (1994); Deputy Director for Foreign Relations (1992); Assistant Director for Political Affairs (1989); Assistant Undersecretary (1985); and Programme Officer (1983).

Mr. Mohamed served as the Deputy High Commissioner at the High Commission of Maldives in Sri Lanka in 2005. He was a Counsellor at the High Commission of Maldives in Malaysia in 2003, and Director at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Kathmandu, Nepal from 1997 to 2000.

A career diplomat, Mr. Mohamed has represented Maldives at several sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and at summits, ministerial meetings and other meetings of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.

Mr. Mohamed has a B.A. from the University of Tasmania, Australia (1984); and an M.A. in international relations from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusettes, United States (1988). He was born in Male’, Maldives on 20 November 1959, and is married with two children.

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