Tanin will replace Farid Zarif, who whose assignment is going to be completed at the end of this month.
Mr Tanin has served as the Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council Reform (2008-2014), the Chair of the fifth Biennial Meeting of States to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (2014), Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian people (2006-2015) and the Vice-President of the sixty-third, sixty-fifth and sixty-seventh sessions of the United Nations General Assembly.
Tanin served as Afghanistan’s envoy to U.N. since 2006. Prior to this, the Kabul University graduate was an analyst, producer, and editor at the BBC World Service.
Born in 1956, Tanin graduated from Kabul Medical University in 1980.
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