Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SURINAME PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

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

Ewald Wensley Limon, the new Permanent Representative of Suriname to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

From 1997 to the present, Mr. Limon served as Head of the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Suriname.  Prior to that, he was Deputy Head of that Department from 1995 to 1997.  From 1989 to 1994, he served with the Permanent Mission of Suriname to the United Nations, and from 1985 to 1989, he was a member of the Senior Official Staff in the Department of International Organizations, with the responsibility of coordinating United Nations-related matters with relevant Government ministries and institutions.

Prior to his joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981, Mr. Limon was a research assistant with the Institute for International Law of the University of Suriname from 1978 to 1982. 

Mr. Limon received a law degree from the University of Suriname in 1985.  His final thesis was on the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the contributions of third world countries.  In 1982, he participated in a specialized course dealing with international law and development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands.

Born on 11 October 1953 in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname, Mr. Limon is married and has two children.

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