NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF AFGHANISTAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

Nanguyalai Tarzi, the new Permanent Representative of Afghanistan 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. Tarzi had been serving as Ambassador of Afghanistan to India, and concurrently as non-resident Ambassador of Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan, since June 2010. He was the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva from January 2007 to May 2010, also serving as Ambassador of Afghanistan to Switzerland from June 2007 to May 2010. From December 2002 to January 2007, he was Ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan. He served as the Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Tehran from January 2001 to November 2002. He was the Permanent Observer of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the United Nations Office at Geneva and non-resident Permanent Observer to the United Nations Office at Vienna from November 1992 to January 2000. From November 1986 to November 1992, he was the Deputy Permanent Observer of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and from November 1979 to September 1986, he served as a Political Advisor at the office of the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.

Mr. Tarzi started his career as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Kabul, teaching international law and international relations, from December 1964 to June 1970. He worked at the Department of Information at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul from June 1970 to December 1973. He was Second Secretary at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington DC from December 1973 to November 1977. And he served as Chief of the Department of International Financial and Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul from December 1977 to November 1978.

Mr. Tarzi has a degree in law and diplomatic relations from the University of Kabul, Faculty of Law and Political Science (1964); and a Doctorate in International Public Law from the Faculté de Droit et Science Economique in Paris (1970). He was born in Kabul and is married with two children.


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