NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MAURITANIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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Biographical Note
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MAURITANIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)
Dah Ouid Abdi, the new Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Abdi served as Ambassador of Mauritania to Japan for a year. For one year before that, from 2001 to 2002, he was the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. The new envoy had also served as his country’s Ambassador to Morocco (2000).
From 1993 to 1995, he was the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). For the next five years until 2000, he remained the Ambassador of Mauritania in France to UNESCO, while he served concurrently as non-resident Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Portugal and Switzerland. In that same period, he was the Personal Representative of the Head of State to the Secretary-General of Francophony. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Abdi was the First Adviser in the Mauritanian Embassy in Paris, France, where he was responsible for communication.
Also in the communications field, Mr. Abdi was the Director of Mauritanian Radio and Television Information Service (1986-1989). Before that, he was Press Adviser to the Head of State. He began his career as Press Attaché to CIF (Centre d’Information et de Formation) in 1974, and he later served as Editor-in-Chief of Radio Mauritania (Radio Mauritanie) (1975 to 1977).
Mr. Abdi’s primary and secondary education, completed in 1977, was in Aleg and Nouakchott. He undertook audio-visual training at the Centre d’Information et de Formation, also in Nouakchott, in 1974. Upon completion of his secondary education in 1977, he studied journalism in Germany until 1983. He speaks Arabic, French, some English and German.
Born in Aleg, Mauritania, in 1951, Mr. Abdi is married with four children.
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