DIPLOMACY
Your Excellency, can you please tell us a bit more about yourself? Why did you decide to become a diplomat? My decision was not a matter of choice, but of devotion and inspiration. In the mid-1990s, as I was learning Arabic at the Cairo University, the Embassy of...
Germany’s recently elected government has shown a commitment to implementing gender equality. A gender-balanced cabinet and female Foreign Minister send strong signals of this commitment. Additionally, for the first time the German Permanent Missions to Geneva and New...
Please tell us briefly about your career, why you joined the diplomatic service, and how you were appointed to your current position as Permanent Representative of your country to the UN in Geneva. I am a lawyer from the University of Rosario, Argentina. I entered the...
Catalina Devandas Aguilar, a lawyer by training, was the first UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2014. She was born in Costa Rica with spina bifida. She has worked for the Disability Rights Fund, the United Nations, the World Bank,...
Madam, what is the advantage to work at the multilateral and bilateral levels at the same time? Combining the roles of ambassador and permanent representative presents numerous advantages. First, it allows me to engage my bilateral and multilateral counterparts in one...
Please tell us briefly about your career, why you joined the diplomatic service and how you were appointed to your current position as Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations All I knew when I was 18, was that I wanted to see a bit more of the world....
Représentant permanent de la République centrafricaine auprès des Offices européens des Nations Unies et des autres organisations internationales à Genève et à Vienne depuis janvier 2009, l’Ambassadeur Leopold-Ismaël Samba met au service de l’ensemble du corps...
Please tell us briefly about your career, why you joined the diplomatic service and how you were appointed to your current position as Permanent representative of your country to the UN in GVA? Born in Samarkand, whose history goes back several millennia, a city of...
Please tell us briefly about your career, why you joined the diplomatic service and how you were appointed to your current position as Permanent Representative of your country to the UN in Geneva. I joined the diplomatic service of the Republic of Moldova about 17...
DIPLOMACY
Germany’s recently elected government has shown a commitment to implementing gender equality. A gender-balanced cabinet and female Foreign Minister send strong signals of this commitment. Additionally, for the first time the German Permanent Missions to Geneva and New...
Please tell us briefly about your career, why you joined the diplomatic service, and how you were appointed to your current position as Permanent Representative of your country to the UN in Geneva. I am a lawyer from the University of Rosario, Argentina. I entered the...
Catalina Devandas Aguilar, a lawyer by training, was the first UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2014. She was born in Costa Rica with spina bifida. She has worked for the Disability Rights Fund, the United Nations, the World Bank,...
Madam, what is the advantage to work at the multilateral and bilateral levels at the same time? Combining the roles of ambassador and permanent representative presents numerous advantages. First, it allows me to engage my bilateral and multilateral counterparts in one...
Please tell us briefly about your career, why you joined the diplomatic service and how you were appointed to your current position as Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations All I knew when I was 18, was that I wanted to see a bit more of the world....
Représentant permanent de la République centrafricaine auprès des Offices européens des Nations Unies et des autres organisations internationales à Genève et à Vienne depuis janvier 2009, l’Ambassadeur Leopold-Ismaël Samba met au service de l’ensemble du corps...
Please tell us briefly about your career, why you joined the diplomatic service and how you were appointed to your current position as Permanent representative of your country to the UN in GVA? Born in Samarkand, whose history goes back several millennia, a city of...
Please tell us briefly about your career, why you joined the diplomatic service and how you were appointed to your current position as Permanent Representative of your country to the UN in Geneva. I joined the diplomatic service of the Republic of Moldova about 17...
Why has a small community like San Marino attracted so much attention throughout history? I believe it is because San Marino, in its 1720 years of uninterrupted independence and autonomy, has continuously preserved its freedom. Freedom from other larger powers, that...
You were the first permanent representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office in Geneva when your country decided to open a Mission in 2014. Could you let us know what motivated you to join the diplomatic service after a long career as a prosecutor in your country?...
