NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ZIMBABWE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ZIMBABWE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

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

Boniface Guwa Chidyausiku, the new Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Prior to his current appointment, Lieutenant Colonel Chidyausiku served as Zimbabwe’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO) based in Geneva, Switzerland from 1999 to 2002.  From 1996 to July 1999 he was his country’s Ambassador to Angola.  Before that, he was Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and was also accredited to the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and to Pakistan from 1990 to 1996.

Mr. Chidyausiku served as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990, and as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Defence from 1988 to 1990.  Between 1986 and 1990 he served as Zimbabwe’s Defence Attache in Washington, D.C. with accreditation to Canada.  Commissioned with the rank of Lt. Colonel in 1985, Mr. Chidyausiku served as a combatant with the Zimbabwe Liberation Army between 1975 and 1980. 

Holding a Master of Science Degree in International Relations and a Bachelor’s Degree with Honours in History from the University of Zimbabwe, he has held a variety of leadership positions while representing his country in meetings of the World Trade Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Commission on Human Rights.

Born in 1950, Mr. Chidyausiku is married and has one son and two daughters.

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