New Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan Presents Credentials

(Based on Information Provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)

The new Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations, Tofig Musayev, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

Between 2019 and his most recent appointment, Mr. Musayev served as his country’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and from 2016 to 2019, as the Permanent Mission’s Counsellor.  He led the Regional Security Department in his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2016.

His diplomatic career includes serving as Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations from 2008 to 2014, including during his country’s membership in the Security Council.  In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he further served as Deputy Director and Director of the Foreign Policy Planning and Strategic Studies Department from 2004 to 2008, and Deputy Director of the International Law and Treaties Department and Head of the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Division from 2001 to 2004.

He also held various positions in the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva from 1997 to 2001, and in the Treaties and Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1997.

Mr. Musayev holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Baku State University, and a master’s degree (LLM) in international human rights law from the University of Essex.