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In a statement, the foreign ministry said that Amb. Alier Deng Ruai Deng, who was once the undersecretary in the ministry of cabinet affairs and director-general of multilateral relations at the ministry of foreign affairs, presented his credentials to the director-general of the UN office in Geneva.
“Ambassador Alier Deng Ruai Deng, the new Permanent Representative of South Sudan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, presented his credentials on Wednesday to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva,” the statement said.
The career diplomat also served as an advisor to the minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation from September 2019 to February 2021.
He also worked, before the independence of South Sudan, at the ministry of foreign affairs of Sudan from 1982 to 2011.
He was Sudan’s Ambassador to Italy from September 2008 to March 2011 and holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Khartoum (1981).
Deng replaces Kuol Alor Kuol Arop, who was appointed as South Sudan’s permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva in September 2016.
