NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NEPAL PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NEPAL PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
20000720 Biographical Note(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)
Murari Raj Sharma, the new Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Prior to his current appointment, from 1998, Mr. Sharma was his country's Foreign Secretary. Before that, from November 1997, Mr. Sharma was acting Foreign Secretary, and Special Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since May 1997.
From April 1993 to May 1997, in the same Ministry, he was Joint Secretary as head of its United Nations, International Organizations and International Law Division. He was also responsible for the North-East and South-East Asia and the Pacific Division, from 1993 to 1994.
Joining Nepal's Administration Service in 1978, Mr. Sharma served as Section Officer at the Foreign Aid Coordination Division of the Ministry of Finance until 1982, and at the Americas Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1983. He was Under-Secretary in the Ministry of General Administration from 1983 to 1989, and in the Ministry of Home Affairs, where he was in charge of the Planning and Special Services Division, responsible for Drug Control and Disaster Management, until 1991. From then until 1993, he joined the Ministry of Finance as Joint Secretary and headed its Budget Division.
Holding a Bachelor of Law degree and a Master's degree in economics from Tribhuvan University of Nepal, Mr. Sharma taught at that University from 1974 to 1976. He worked with two parastatals from 1976 to 1978, before entering the Civil Service.
A former Hubert Humphrey fellow at the American University in Washington, D.C., Mr. Sharma also holds a Master of Public and International Affairs degree from University of Pittsburgh, in the United States.
Born in April 1951, Mr. Sharma is married and has two sons.
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