ALOUNKEO KITTIKHOUN OF LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF FOURTH COMMITTEE

Biographical Note                  

ALOUNKEO KITTIKHOUN OF LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF FOURTH COMMITTEE

Alounkeo Kittikhoun, Permanent Representative of the Lao People's Democratic Republic to the United Nations, was this afternoon elected Chairman of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) for the fifty-first session of the General Assembly.  He has been his country's Permanent Representative since 1993.

From 1992 until his current appointment, Mr. Kittikhoun served as Director-General of his Foreign Ministry's Department of International Organizations.  He was Deputy Director of that Department from 1990 to 1992.

A career diplomat who joined the foreign service in 1977, Mr. Kittikhoun served at his country's Permanent Mission to the United Nations between 1980 and 1990, first as Second Secretary, then rising to First Secretary and Counsellor.

In the course of his career, Mr. Kittikhoun attended many international meetings and conferences, as well as 15 regular sessions of the General Assembly.  He served as Vice-President of the Assembly during its fiftieth session.

Mr. Kittikhoun received a bachelor's degree from the Royal Institute of Law and Administration in Vientiane, Laos, in 1975.  In that same year, he studied at the International Institute for Public Administration in Paris and, from 1975 to 1976, at the University of Paris I (Panteon Sorbonne).

Born on 10 October 1951 in Pakse, Champassak Province, Laos, he is married and has two children.

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*     This press release supersedes Press Release BIO/2797 of 11 August 1993.