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

Remigiusz Achilles Henczel, the new Permanent Representative of Poland 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. Henczel had been serving as the Director of the Law and Treaty Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. From 2001 to 2002, he served as the head of the Labour Law and Relations Department for the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Mr. Henczel previously served at the Permanent Mission of Poland to the United Nations Office at Geneva, as Counsellor from 1997 to 2000. He served as Counsellor General in the Department of International Cooperation and European Integration for the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy of Poland from 1988 to 2002, and from 1979 to 1988 he was an assistant at Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan.

Mr. Henczel was born 23 June 1957 in Jarocin, Poland and graduated with a degree in law from Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan in 1979; he received his Ph.D. in law in 1987, also from Adam Mickiewicz University. Mr. Henczel is married with one daughter.


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