NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF LEBANON PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF LEBANON PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
19990730 Biographical Note(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Office.)
Selim Tadmoury, the new Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Before his appointment, from 1990 to 1999, Mr. Tadmoury served as his country's Ambassador to the Russian Federation, covering all the former Soviet Republics and also Finland, and from 1987 to 1990 as Ambassador to Turkey. Before that (1985- 1987) he was Chef du Service des Étrangers in his Government's Department of Political Affairs.
From 1977 to 1978, he was Deputy Director in his country's Department of Economic Affairs, and then served as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York (1978- 1983), for part of that period (1980-1982) also as Deputy Chief of the Lebanese delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. From 1983 to 1985 he was Ambassador of Lebanon to China.
Earlier, Mr. Tadmoury served at his country's embassies in Morocco and Egypt and he was Counsellor at the embassy in Austria and Deputy Representative to the specialized agencies of the United Nations in Vienna (1974-1978).
After obtaining a Master of Arts in history, Mr. Tadmoury was graduated both in private law and public law from the University of Rabat in Morocco.
Born in Tripoli, Lebanon, in 1938, Mr. Tadmoury is married and has one child.
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