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

Wunna Maung Lwin, the new Permanent Representative of Myanmar 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, since September 2006, Mr. Lwin had been serving as Ambassador to Belgium. Since his transfer to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the end of May 2000, Mr. Lwin has served as Ambassador to Israel (2000-2001); Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2001-2005); and as resident Ambassador to France, concurrently accredited to the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, the European Union and the European Commission (2001-2005). From June 2005 to September 2006, Mr. Lwin was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ambassador Lwin began his career in the National Defence Services of Myanmar, serving in various capacities from 1974 to 1998 up to the rank of Colonel. From 1998 to 2000, he was the Director General of the Department of Border Areas and National Races at the Ministry for Progress of Border Areas and National Races and Development Affairs.

Mr. Lwin has been a member or head of delegation for his country to a number of international conferences and meetings, including, most recently, the sixteenth ASEAN-European Commission Joint Cooperation Committee meeting in Brussels, in May 2007. He has also served as a member of the Myanmar delegation to the fifty-seventh through sixty-first sessions of the United Nations General Assembly.

Mr. Lwin received his bachelor of science degree in 1974. Born on 30 May 1952, he is married with three children.


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