NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Jadranka Kalmeta, the new Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Kalmeta had been serving as Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Ljubljana, Slovenia since 2004. From 2000 to 2004, she had been the Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Paris, France, concurrently representing her country at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

From 1997 to 2000, Ms. Kalmeta had been serving as a Counsellor in the Consular Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. She served on an honorary post as Third Secretary and then Second Secretary at the Embassy of Croatia in Sarajeva from 1994 to 1997. Before her diplomatic career started, Ms. Kalmeta was a school teacher and a journalist.

Ms. Kalmeta has a B.A. and a B.Sc. in sociology from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Sarajevo (1985). She has attended diplomatic courses organized by the United States' State Department in Washington and New York (2000), the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Oslo (1996) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia in Zagreb (1994). She also attended various seminars and trainings organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Born on 27 September 1948 in Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ms. Kalmeta has two children.

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