NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MOZAMBIQUE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

Biographical Note                                           BIO/3487

                                                            4 April 2003

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MOZAMBIQUE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

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

Filipe Chidumo, the new Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Chidumo served as Mozambique’s Ambassador to Spain since October 1999.  From May 1996 to March 1997, he served simultaneously as Head of Cabinet of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and Interim Director of International Organizations and Conferences, and subsequently, as Director of International Organizations and Conferences until November 1999.  He was Deputy Director and Head of Cabinet of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation between 1994 and 1997.

Having joined the foreign ministry in 1978, Mr. Chidumo has also served as Third Secretary in the Mozambican Embassy in Moscow from 1983 to 1984, as well as Third, Second and First Secretary at his country’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York between 1987 and 1994.  He was promoted to Counsellor in

1997 and Minister-Counsellor in 2003.

Mr. Chidumo has a Masters Degree in International Political Economy and Development from Fordham University, New York, and a Bachelors Degree in International Relations from the High Institute of International Relations, Maputo.

Born on 9 May 1957, in Quissico, Mr. Chidumo is married with three sons.

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