NEW PERMANENT REPRESENATIVE OF HUNGARY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENATIVE OF HUNGARY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Laszlo Molnar, the new Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations, presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan today.

Before his new appointment, Mr. Molnar was Hungary's Consul General in New York in 1999.  The previous year, he was Deputy Head of the State Secretariat for Integration, with the rank of State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Also in 1998, he served briefly as Deputy State Secretary, supervising multilateral affairs in the Ministry.

From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Molnar served as Ministerial Commissioner for Non-proliferation and Arms Control and Deputy Director, Department of Security Policy and European Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

During a previous stint at the United Nations, from 1991 to 1996, he was his Mission’s Deputy Permanent Representative, serving during that period as Deputy Representative of Hungary in the Security Council.  Between 1989 and 1996

Mr. Molnar was a member of the Hungarian delegation to the Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

Born at Ozd, Hungary, in 1958, Mr. Molnar was educated at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Tufts University, Medford, and Harvard University.

He is married and has two children.

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