Eritrea/Ethiopia: Annan appoints yet another D. Special Rep.
29 July, 2005
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Biographical Note
SECRETARY-GENERAL
APPOINTS AZOUZ ENNIFAR OF TUNISIA As DEPUTY
SPECIAL
REPRESENTATIVE FOR ETHIOPIA, ERITREA
United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Azouz Ennifar of Tunisia as Deputy Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for the United Nations Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia
(UNMEE). He will be based in Addis Ababa.
Mr. Ennifar has a distinguished career with his country’s
foreign service. Earlier this year, he completed a tour of duty in
Kinshasa and Brazzaville as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo with
accreditation to the Republic of Congo in 2002. He also served as
Ambassador to Indonesia, Brazil and Italy, and has worked in the Tunisian embassy
in Paris as Chargé d’Affaires a.i.
In 1994 he was appointed Ambassador to the United States, with
accreditation to Mexico and Venezuela. Mr. Ennifar
has also represented the Tunisian Government at the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Earlier in his career,
Mr. Ennifar worked with the Ministry of National
Economy. He was also the Managing Director of the Export Promotion
Centre, a Government institution shaping Tunisia’s foreign trade. He is a
co-founder of the Association des Études Internationales, a non-profit organization involved in
diplomatic studies.
Mr. Ennifar was born in Tunis on 30 April 1945. He
studied in Tunis, Nice, and Paris and is married with three children.
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