New Permanent Representative of Russian Federation Presents Credentials

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)

The new Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

Prior to this latest appointment, Mr. Nebenzia served as the Russian Federation’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2013.  From 2012 to 2013, he was Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights.

Between 2006 and 2012, Mr. Nebenzia was Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva.  From 2003 to 2006, he served as Deputy Director in the Foreign Ministry’s Department of International Organizations.  He was a Section Head in that Department from 2000 to 2003.

Mr. Nebenzia previously held the post of Senior Counsellor at the Russian Federation’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York between 1996 and 2000.  From 1993 to 1996, he was a Division Head in the Department of International Organizations.

A career diplomat, having joined the foreign service in 1983, Mr. Nebenzia also held several posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.  From 1990 to 1992, he served as Third and Second Secretary in the Directorate of International Organizations, and as attaché at his country’s Embassy in Thailand from 1988 to 1990.

Mr. Nebenzia is a graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Born in 1962 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, he is married and has a son.