NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NETHERLANDS PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NETHERLANDS PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
19970911 Biographical NoteJaap Ramaker, the new Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Mr. Ramaker had been his country's Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva since 1994, where he served as Chairman of last year's nuclear test-ban negotiations. In 1995, he also served as Chairman of the working group on legal and institutional issues relating to those negotiations. He also shared the main committee on peaceful uses of nuclear energy of the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
Serving at the rank of Minister-Plenipotentiary, Mr. Ramaker was Deputy Chief of Mission to Moscow, from 1990 to 1994, and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, from 1986-1990. Prior to that, from 1983 to 1986, he was Deputy Head of the Netherlands' delegation to the Conference on Disarmament. In other foreign posts, Mr. Ramaker served as First Secretary and Deputy Chief of Mission in Portugal (1977-1980), Consul in Brazil (1975-1976), and Third Secretary of the Embassy in Cameroon (1970- 1972).
Within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ramaker also served in the Central and Southern Africa Section (1972-1975) and as head of the Middle East Section (1980-1983).
Mr. Ramaker holds a Master's degree in political science from the University of Amsterdam (1967) and has done postgraduate study at the Netherlands Association for International Affairs (1968-1969).
Born on 29 June 1939, he is married to Dr. Luce Ramaker-Hameete.
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