NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Victor Moraru, the new Permanent Representative of the Republic of Moldova to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Moraru held the title of Ambassador at Large for Global Affairs since July 2010, before which he was the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration from October 2009.

It is the new Permanent Representative of the Republic of Moldova’s second posting to Geneva, as he previously lived there from December 2006 to September 2009, serving as Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative at the Mission of Moldova to the United Nations Office at Geneva. He held the same position at the Mission of the Republic of Moldova to the United Nations in New York from September 1999 to August 2002, prior to which he was Counsellor and Chargé d'affaires of the Mission in New York from 1993 to 1997.

Mr. Moraru first joined the Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Chisinau in 1992 as First Secretary, and subsequently Director, of the Department for the United Nations and Disarmament Affairs. He served as Senior Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1998, and held the post of Director at the Department of United Nations and its Specialized Agencies in 1999. Mr. Moraru was the Deputy Director of Multilateral Economic Relations at the Ministry from 2002 to 2004, and Deputy Director of Multilateral Affairs from 2004 to 2006.

After studying at the Chisinau Agricultural Institute from 1980 to 1985, Mr. Moraru worked as a research scientist at the Institute of Ecology and Genetics within the Academy of Science of the Republic of Moldova, after which he returned to academia to read a masters degree in International Relations at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest from 1990 to 1992.

Born on 1 December 1961 in Terebna, Mr. Moraru is married with two children, and speaks English, Russian and intermediate level French.



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