NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF URUGUAY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF URUGUAY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
20000823 Biographical Note(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service)
Felipe H. Paolillo, the new Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Prior to this appointment, from 1996, Mr. Paolillo was his countrys Ambassador to the Holy See. During this same period of time, he also served as Uruguay's Representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In the early 1990s, Mr. Paolillo was the Deputy Executive Secretary to the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva, and before that, from 1987 to 1990, he was the Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations.
In addition to his work within the United Nations system, Mr. Paolillo has held a variety of diplomatic posts with his country's foreign service. Most recently, from 1994 to 1996, he was the Director of the Division of International Organizations and the Division of Special Affairs in Uruguay's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Within the same Ministry, he also served as the Director of the Diplomatic Academy (1985-1987.)
Mr. Paolillo holds a Doctor of Law and Social Sciences from the University of Uruguay. Mr. Paolillo taught at that University from 1967 to 1974 and from 1985 to 1987. In the interim, from 1977 to 1984, he served as an Associate Professor at New York Universitys School of Law.
Early in his diplomatic career, Mr. Paolillo served as a Legal Advisor within his own Government in the Foreign Trade Division of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and as a Legal Officer at the Legal Affairs Division of the United Nations.
Mr. Paolillo, who is single, was born in Uruguay on 8 October 1931.
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