NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CANADA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CANADA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
20000823 Biographical Note(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)
Paul Heinbecker, the new Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Prior to todays appointment, Mr. Heinbecker held several high-level Canadian Government posts. Most recently, since 1996, he served as Assistant Deputy Minister for Global and Security Policy and Political Director in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Heinbecker was Ambassador to Germany. Immediately before that, from 1989 to 1992, Mr. Heinbecker served as the then Prime Minister's Chief Foreign Policy Adviser and speech writer, as well as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy.
Mr. Heinbecker began his diplomatic work in 1965, when he joined Canada's Department of External Affairs. He has served abroad in Ankara, Stockholm, and Paris with the Permanent Delegation of Canada to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. While working in Ottawa, he served, inter alia, as Director of the United States General Relations Division and as Chairman of the Policy Development Secretariat in External Affairs. From 1985 to 1989, he was Canadian Minister in Washington.
In 1965 Mr. Heinbecker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Canadas Waterloo Lutheran University. He received an Honourary Doctorate of Law from the same institution in 1993.
Mr. Heinbecker is married to Ayse Koymen. They have two daughters, Yasemin and Céline.
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