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

Vesna Vukovic, the new Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, presented her credentials today to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Vukovic had been serving as the Head of the UN Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration since 2008. From 2006 to 2008, she was the Head of the UN Security Council Section at the UN Department, except for a period during 2007 when she served at the Permanent Mission of Croatia to UN Headquarters in New York as Minister Plenipotentiary. She was Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission of Croatia in Vienna to the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe from 2001 to 2006. Between 1993 and 2001, Ms. Vukovic held other duties at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and European Integration.

Ms. Vukovic has represented Croatia in a number of United Nations meetings and committees. She is co-author of a book entitled “Croatia and the UN” and she is initiator and co-author of the PC programme for candidatures in UN bodies and organizations as well as for the IT solution for Croatia’s non-permanent membership in the Security Council. She is a lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy and the University of Zagreb.

Ms. Vukovic has a degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb (1985) and another from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration’s Diplomatic Academy in Zagreb (1995). She was born on 26 January, 1960 in Karlovac, Croatia. She has two children.


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