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

Rodolfo Reyes Rodriguez, the new Permanent Representative of Cuba 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. Reyes Rodriguez had been serving as Director for Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba since September 2005. He was Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs from 2001 to September 2003, and from January 2004 to August 2005. Since 2005, he had concurrently carried out the functions of the Deputy National Coordinator for summits.

A career diplomat, Mr. Reyes Rodriguez served as First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations in New York from 1996 to 1999. During his career, he has held a variety of posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba.

Mr. Reyes Rodriguez has a degree in international political relations from the High Institute for International Relations Raul Roa Garcia of Havana. He has represented Cuba at numerous international conferences and meetings, including the forty-ninth to sixty-first sessions of the former Commission on Human Rights, as well as the fiftieth to sixty-third sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Mr. Reyes Rodriguez was born on 23 August 1964 in Havana.


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