NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Homero Luis Hernandez Sanchez, the new Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic 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. Hernandez Sanchez had been serving as a member of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions of the United Nations since 2003. From 1993 to 2002, he served first as an Inspector at the Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations in Geneva, then as its Vice-Chairman from 1995 and as its Chairman from 1996.

The new Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic was a United Nations staff member from 1972 to 1978 in New York, and was then appointed as Ambassador of the Dominican Republic and Deputy Permanent Representative to United Nations Headquarters. Mr. Hernandez Sanchez then served as Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, a post he held until 1982.

Between 1987 and 1991, Mr. Hernandez Sanchez was a Special Counsellor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, at the rank of Ambassador, and he participated at the 1988, 1989 and 1990 sessions of the General Assembly. In 1991, he was appointed as the new Deputy Permanent Representative of the Dominican Permanent Mission in New York.

Mr. Hernandez Sanchez has a degree in political science and international affairs from the University of Colombia in New York. He also studied international affairs at the Escuela Diplomatica Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile, and the Institut universitaire des hautes etudes internationales in Geneva. He has a Ph.D. in law from the autonomous University of Santo Domingo.

Mr. Hernandez Sanchez was born on 11 September 1941 in Santo Domingo.

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