NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NEPAL PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)
Madhu Raman Acharya, the new Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Acharya was his country’s Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2005, and before that he served as Nepal’s Ambassador to Bangladesh (1998-2001). In 1997-1998, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in New Delhi, India, and in 1996-1997 served as Joint Secretary in Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the 1990s, he participated in United Nations missions in Cambodia, South Africa and Liberia.
Mr. Acharya began his distinguished career in 1982 as Assistant Lecturer at his alma mater -– Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu. In 1983, he was appointed a Section Officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs, where he remained until 1990. He joined the Ministry of Finance in 1990 as Assistant Secretary, and from 1993 to 1996 he was Nepal’s Under-Secretary of Finance.
He holds several degrees from Tribhuvan University and is the author of several books and publications.
Born on 24 February 1957 in Udayapur, Nepal, he is married with two children.
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