NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF UZBEKISTAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

4 August 1997

Press Release
BIO/3085

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF UZBEKISTAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

19970804 Biographical Note

Alisher Vohidov, the new Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Vohidov held the post of First Secretary, Counsellor and Chargé d'affaires of his country's Permanent Mission to the United Nations. He has authored publications on national and international economics.

From 1993 to 1994, Mr. Vohidov was Chief Adviser to the United Nations Resident Coordinator at the United Nations Office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

At Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Vohidov directed the international organizations department from 1992 to 1993. For six years, he was a researcher at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. From 1982 to 1984, he was the senior expert at the Ministry of Foreign Trade in Moscow.

Mr. Vohidov was a researcher at the Academy of Sciences' Institute of Economics in Moscow for four years beginning in 1975, and at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences in Tashkent for one year before that.

In 1973, Mr. Vohidov graduated from the Tashkent State University Pedagogical Institute. For the next year, he studied national economics at the University. From 1979 through 1982, Mr. Vohidov took post-graduate courses in international economics at Moscow's Academy of Foreign Trade. He studied diplomatic relations at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow from 1984 to 1986.

Mr. Vohidov was born on 24 December 1951. He is married and has two children.

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