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

Ibrahim Mirghani Ibrahim, the new Permanent Representative of the Sudan 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. Ibrahim served as the Legal Advisor for the Sudanese delegation to the Darfur peace negotiations in Abuja, Nigeria from November 2004 to August 2006. Concurrently, he served as focal point for the Sudan Government in dealings with the International Criminal Court from May 2004 to August 2006, and was Director-General of Planning, Research and Information Technology at the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Khartoum from January 2004 to January 2006.

Mr. Ibrahim was the Permanent Representative of the Sudan to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1997 to 2003, and concurrently, from 1999 to 2003, also acted as the Sudanese Ambassador to Switzerland. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Ibrahim was the Director-General of Planning, Research and Information at the Ministry, and from 1994 to 1995, he served as Director-General of the Legal Administration in the Ministry of Justice. Prior to those posts, Mr. Ibrahim had a long career as a legal adviser and legal counsel to a wide range of public and private corporations and bodies and, notably, established the Legal Administration in the Council of Ministers in Khartoum in 1977, where he continued as its Director until 1983.

Mr. Ibrahim received a doctorate degree in juridical sciences from Harvard Law School in 1983 and holds two masters degrees in law from Harvard (1979) and Khartoum University (1978), where he also received his undergraduate law degree (1970).

Mr. Ibrahim is married.


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