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

The new Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Alejandro Artucio Rodriguez, today presented his credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Sergei Ordzhonikidze.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Artucio Rodriguez served as Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations in New York from 2004 to 2006. During 2000, he was an international human rights consultant. From 1991 to 1999, he was a Senior Legal Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean at the International Commission of Jurists, a non-governmental organization, based in Geneva. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Artucio Rodriguez was also Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Equatorial Guinea for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

A lawyer by training, Mr. Artucio Rodriguez practised law after he graduated in 1967 with a Doctorate in Law and Social Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Montevideo in Uruguay. Starting 1977, he began to undertake missions for a number of human rights non-governmental organizations to, among other countries, Chile, Panama, Peru, Colombia and Guatemala. He has taught a variety of classes focusing on key human rights themes such as human rights protection, impunity, the International Criminal Court and the role of non-governmental organizations.

Mr. Artucio Rodriguez speaks Spanish, French, English, Italian, and Portuguese.

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