PABLO MACEDO OF MEXICO ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF FOURTH COMMITTEE
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BIO/3184
GA/SPD/131
PABLO MACEDO OF MEXICO ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF FOURTH COMMITTEE
19980909 Biographical Note Pablo Macedo, who was this afternoon elected Chairman of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) for the fifty-third session of the General Assembly, has served as Minister in charge of political affairs, Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations, since 1993.Prior to his New York posting, Mr. Macedo was the Private Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Foreign Minister and Deputy Director of the Ministry's North American Department (1991-1993).
Mr. Macedo joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1982. He was assigned to the Mexican mission to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (1983-1989), and to the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations (1989-1991), working in the area of economic affairs.
During his diplomatic career, Mr. Macedo has represented his country at several review conferences of multilateral disarmament treaties, including that on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). He has also served as Chairman of two working groups of the Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons of the Conference on Disarmament, which negotiated and concluded the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (Chemical Weapons Convention).
Mr. Macedo holds a law degree from the University of Mexico and a master's degree from the National Defence College in Mexico City. He was born on 23 February 1958 in Mexico City.
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