NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF OMAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

9 October 1998

Press Release
BIO/3201

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF OMAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

19981009 Biographical Note Fuad Mubarak Al-Hinai, the new Permanent Representative of Oman to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Before taking up his present appointment last August, Mr. Al-Hinai had served since 1994 as Deputy Chief of the International Conferences and Organizations Department in Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1992 to 1994, he was Deputy Chief of the Ministry's Training Department.

Mr. Al-Hinai's diplomatic career includes appointments as Counsellor and Chargé d'affaires at the Omani Embassy in Brunei Darussalam from 1986 to 1992 and, from 1983 to 1984, as First Secretary at the country's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva. From 1979 to 1982, Mr. Al-Hinai served as First Secretary at the Oman Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.

Mr. Al-Hinai served as Second Secretary, then First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Oman to the United Nations from 1974 to 1978. His experience at United Nations Headquarters includes election as Rapporteur of the General Assembly's Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) in 1977.

Born on 13 August 1951, Mr. Al-Hinai was educated at the University of Kuwait. He is married with two children.

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