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New Permanent Representative of Lao People’s Democratic Republic Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Presentation of Credentials

Daovy Vongxay, the new Permanent Representative of Lao People’s Democratic Republic to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Vongxay had been serving as Director-General of the Department of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lao People’s Democratic Republic since 2021.  He also served as Deputy Director-General of the Department from December 2016 to June 2018. He served as Deputy Permanent Representative and Minister Counselor at the Permanent Mission of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to the United Nations in New York from July 2018 to August 2021.  He also served at the Mission as Second and First Secretary from January 2011 to February 2014.

Other posts Mr. Vongxay has held include Director of the United Nations Economic and Social Affairs Division at the Department of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from March 2014 to November 2016; and Deputy Director of the Dialogue Partners Relations Division at the Department of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at the Ministry from 2009 to 2010.  He was a desk official in various divisions of the Department starting October 1997.

Mr. Vongxay has a Master of Science in International Cooperation Policy from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita, Japan (2006-2008); a post graduate diploma in translation and interpretation from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia (January-December 1999); and a bachelor of arts from the National University of Laos (1992-1997).  He was born on 2 September 1975 in Houaphan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and is married with a daughter and a son.

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