Sanita Pavļuta-Deslandes (Latvia) Chair of Fourth Committee

The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) elected Sanita Pavļuta-Deslandes (Latvia) as Chair on 6 June.  (See Press Release GA/12605.)

Prior to her appointment in 2023 as Permanent Representative of Latvia to the United Nations, she was Head of the UN Security Council Task Force at her country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2021. Previously, she served as Latvia’s Permanent Representative to the European Union from 2015 to 2021.

Among other diplomatic assignments, from 2010 to 2015, Ms. Pavluta-Deslandes was Ambassador to France and Permanent Delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). She served concurrently as Ambassador to Monaco and the President’s Personal Representative to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). Based in Paris, Ms. Pavļuta-Deslandes was also Ambassador to Morocco from 2014 to 2015 and Deputy Head of the Task Force for Latvia’s accession to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) between  2013 and 2015. 

Between 2008 and 2010, she served as Ambassador to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). She was also Adviser to the Prime Minister on European Union affairs from 2005 to 2007. Beginning her diplomatic career in 1995, she held numerous positions in the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ms. Pavļuta-Deslandes received a diploma in political science from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and a Bachelor of Fine Arts diploma in intercultural relations from the Academy of Culture of Latvia.

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* This supersedes Press Release BIO/5506 of 22 August 2023.