NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PERU PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Eduardo Ponce Vivanco, the new Permanent Representative of Peru 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. Ponce Vivanco served as Ambassador to Brazil and as Ambassador to the United Kingdom. In 1995, he negotiated and signed the peace agreement between Peru and Ecuador. Earlier, he served as Secretary-General and Vice Minister of Foreign Relations. Prior to that, he was Peru's Ambassador to Ecuador.

Mr. Ponce Vivanco began his diplomatic career in 1968 as a secretary at the Peruvian Embassies in Japan and in Ecuador. Since then, among other posts, he served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations Office at Geneva, as Permanent Representative of Peru to international organizations for raw materials based in London, as Undersecretary for American Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, and as Permanent Representative of Peru to the Latin American Integration Association in Montevideo.

Mr. Ponce Vivanco graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Lima with a degree in law and political science, and has a master's in international relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Peru. He has also studied international relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

Mr. Ponce Vivanco was born in Arequipa, Peru in 1943.

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