UNIS/BIO/616
29 August 2001

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MACEDONIA
PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

VIENNA, 29 August (UN Information Service) – The new Permanent Representative of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the United Nations (Vienna), Aleksandar Tavciovski, presented his credentials on Wednesday to Pino Arlacchi, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV).

Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Tavciovski was Foreign Affairs Adviser to the Macedonian President. From 1997 until 2000 he was Undersecretary for Euro-Atlantic Integrations at the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also served as Secretary of the Euro-Atlantic Committee of the Government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Mr. Tavciovski joined the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992, as Adviser in the Cabinet of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Between 1993 and 1994 he was Head of the Multilateral Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During 1995 and 1996 he served as Charge d’affairs at the Macedonian Embassy in Vienna. Between 1994 and 1997 Mr. Tavciovski was Head of the Macedonian Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Vienna, and a year before that he was Head of the Macedonian Permanent Mission to the OSCE, also in Vienna.

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