NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
Presentation of Credentials
Alexey Borodavkin, the new Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Borodavkin had been serving as Russia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for relations with Asian countries, and multilateral cooperation in Asia and the Pacific since 2008. He served as Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna, Austria from 2004 to 2008, and was Ambassador to the Slovak Republic from 2002 to 2004. From 1999 to 2002, he was Director of the Fourth Commonwealth of Independent States Department at the Ministry.
A career diplomat, Mr. Borodavkin joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1975. He has held various diplomatic posts in the central office of the Ministry and abroad, including in Thailand, Slovakia and Austria.
Mr. Borodavkin was born in 1950. He graduated in 1973 from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
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