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

Anton Pinter, the new Permanent Representative of Slovakia 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. Pinter had been serving, since 2004, as Director General of the Division for International Organizations, Disarmament and Development Cooperation at the Foreign Ministry of Slovakia. From 1999 to 2004, he served as Head of the Permanent Mission of Slovakia to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna, Austria.

A career diplomat, Mr. Pinter’s foreign assignments have included being based in Tel Aviv, Israel from 1990 to 1995; Harare, Zimbabwe from 1982 to 1985; and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 1980 to 1982.

He has also served in Slovakia’s Foreign Ministry’s Department of European Integration and on the African Desk of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia.

Born on 30 July 1952 in Pata, Slovakia, Mr. Pinter is married with two children. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of International Relations in 1977.

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