http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2014/bio4580.doc.htm
23 April 2014
Press Release
BIO/4580
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Department of Public Information * News and Media Division * New York
Biographical Note
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ERITREA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)
The new Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the United Nations, Girma
Asmerom Tesfay, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon.
>From 2011 until his latest appointment, Mr. Tesfay was his country's
Ambassador to the African Union. He served in Brussels as Ambassador to
the European Union between 2007 and 2011, with concurrent accreditation to
Belgium.
Mr Tesfay was Director General of the Americas and International
Organizations at Eritrea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Asmara from 2006
to 2007. He served as Ambassador to the United States and Canada between
2001 and 2006, and as Ambassador to South Africa from 1999 to 2001, with
non-resident accreditation to Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia
and Madagascar. Between 1997 and 1999, he was Ambassador to Ethiopia, the
Organization of African Unity and the United Nations Economic Commission
for Africa.
He also held several positions within the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry
of Information and Culture between 1991 and 1996.
Mr. Tesfay holds a Master of Arts in international relations from the
American University School of International Service, and a Bachelor of Arts
in government from Bowdoin College, both in the United States.
Born in Eritrea on December 10 1949, Mr. Tesfay is married.
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