NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CUBA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, the new Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Pedroso Cuesta had been serving as Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs and International Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba from 2014 to 2016. He was Director for Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry in 2013, and from 2009 to 2012, he was Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs. From 2002 to 2006, he was the Ambassador of Cuba to Kenya and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Programme on the Environment and UN-HABITAT.

Mr. Pedroso Cuesta served as Second Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations in New York from 1994 to 1997. From 1992 to 1994, he was a member of Cuban delegations to the United Nations on the environment and development to the forty-eighth United Nations General Assembly session and the United Nations Conference on Small Developing Island Nations. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989.

Mr. Pedroso Cuesta has a degree in International Political Relations from the Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations (1987); a Masters in National Security from the National Defense College (1999); and a postgraduate degree in Public Administration (2014). He was born on 9 February 1962 in Havana, Cuba and is married with one child.



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