Biographical Note

Inga Rhonda King, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, was elected Chair of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) on 29 September 2016 (see Press Release GA/AB/4202).

The new Permanent Representative of Benin to the United Nations, Jean-Claude F. do Rego, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

On 13 June 2016, the United Nations General Assembly elected Peter Thomson of Fiji to serve as President of its seventy-first session, which runs from September 2016 to September 2017.

The new Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the United Nations, Christian Frédéric Braun, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Malawi to the United Nations, Necton D. Mhura, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the United Nations, Georgi Velikov Panayotov, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Mali to the United Nations, Issa Konfourou, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Oman to the United Nations, Khalifa bin Ali Issa Al-Harthy, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, Adikalie Foday Sumah, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations, Jorge Skinner-Klee, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.