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

Mouayed Saleh, the new Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Saleh had been serving as Iraq’s Ambassador to Australia since 2010. He was concurrently non-resident Ambassador of Iraq to Fiji in 2015, and non-resident Ambassador of Iraq to New Zealand from 2011 to 2015. He served as Director-General of Foreign Relations and Political Affairs in the office of the Prime Minister of Iraq in 2009 and an Advisor on foreign relations in the same office from 2007 to 2009.

From 1989 to 2007, Mr. Saleh worked in the private sector in the United States as an electronics engineer. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2009.

Mr. Saleh has a Master’s degree in engineering from Arizona State University in the United States (2003), and a Bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the State University of New York, Buffalo, New York State, United States (1985).


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