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

Nicolas Niemtchinow, the new Permanent Representative of France 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. Niemtchinow served as Deputy Director of the Office of Alain Juppe, France’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, from March 2011 until February 2012. He was a Diplomatic Counsellor at the Ministry of Defence from 2009 to 2011. He held the post of Deputy Director for Strategic Affairs of the Strategic Affairs, Security and Disarmament Directorate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2009.

A career diplomat, Mr. Niemtchinow was posted in Jordan as Deputy Head of Mission of the French Embassy between 2002 and 2005. From 1998 to 2002, he was posted in Russia, where he served as a First Secretary at the French Embassy.

Mr. Niemtchinow joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1995 and worked for the NATO, European Defence, Operations and National Defence Policy Section of the Strategic Affairs, Security and Disarmament Directorate until 1998.

Mr. Niemtchinow holds a degree in History from the Sorbonne and is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and the Ecole Nationale d’administration.

Mr. Niemtchinow was born on 27 April 1968 and is married with three children.

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