NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CAMBODIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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BIO/3211
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CAMBODIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
19981211 Biographical NoteOuch Borith, the new Permanent Representative of Cambodia to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Prior to assuming his current post, from 1993 to 1997, Mr. Borith served as the Deputy Permanent Representative of his country to the United Nations, having served as Chargé d'affaires of Cambodia's Permanent Mission to the United Nations from 1992 to 1993. Those posts with the United Nations followed an appointment as the Cambodian Ambassador to Viet Nam from 1990 to 1992. From 1987 to 1990, he served as Director of the Department of Asia and Pacific Affairs within Cambodia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 1983 to 1987, Mr. Borith held an appointment as Counsellor in charge of Political Affairs to the Cambodian Embassy in Moscow. Prior to that, from 1980 to 1983, Mr. Borith was the Director of the Department of the United Nations Humanitarian Organization within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cambodia, after having served with the Ministry as a French translator from 1979 to 1980.
After earning a General Certificate of Education in Phnom Penh in 1971, Mr. Borith attended the Medical Faculty in Phnom Penh from 1971 to 1975 and the Institute of Sociology in Moscow during 1981.
Born on 2 November 1957 in Phnom Penh, Mr. Borith is married and has five children.
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