NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE PRESENTSCREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Guy-Alain Emmanuel Gauze, the new Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire 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 2002, Ambassador Gauze had been serving as Special Adviser on Foreign Trade to the Office of the President. From 2000 to 2002, he served as Côte d’Ivoire's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Holland, Luxembourg and the Commission of the European Union.

Minister of Foreign Trade from 1998 to 2000, and Minister for Raw Materials from 1990 to 1998, between 1989 and 2001 Mr. Gauze had also chaired the International Cocoa Council, the Interafrican Coffee Organization, and has been the spokesman for the 71 African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries on Lomé IV renegotiations, and for the ACP banana producers at the World Trade Organization. He was a Governor at the Common Fund for Commodities and represented Côte d'Ivoire at the International Coffee Organization in London from 1987 to 1990, acting as Chairman of the International Coffee Council from 1987 to 1989.

Mr. Gauze holds three graduate degrees: in international economic relations from the Institut d'Administration Publique in Paris (1981); in European economic and legal affairs, from the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium (1978); and a master's in diplomacy from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (1979). He graduated from the University of Abidjan in 1976.

Born on 5 March 1952 in Côte d’Ivoire, Mr. Gauze is married with three children.

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