New Permanent Representative of Yemen Presents Credentials

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

The new Permanent Representative of Yemen to the United Nations, Abdullah Ali Fadhel al-Saadi, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

Before his latest appointment, Mr. Saadi was Ambassador to Turkey beginning in 2016.  Prior to that, he served as Director in the Office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs between 2014 and 2016, and as Deputy Director of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences from 2013 to 2014.

In 2009, Mr. Saadi was appointed Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.  In prior appointments, he held foreign service postings in Yemen’s embassies in Canada and France, between various leadership roles at the Foreign Ministry in Sana’a, which he initially joined in 1988.

Mr. Saadi holds a master’s degree in international law from Moscow University, as well as a diploma in political science from the Moscow Diplomatic Academy.

Born in 1960, he is married and has four children.