High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
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Mr. Sergio de Queiroz Duarte
of Brazil was appointed High Representative for Disarmament Affairs on 2 July 2007 by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The appointment is at the Under-Secretary-General level.
Mr. Duarte was a career diplomat in the Brazilian Foreign Service, well-known in disarmament circles as an experienced and knowledgeable representative of his Government in the many sessions he attended of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, of the United Nations Disarmament Commission (UNDC), the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and many other disarmament-related meetings and treaty bodies. His last high profile assignment in multilateral disarmament was as President of the 2005 Seventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Before that he also served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from September 1999 to September 2000. He also served as his country’s Ambassador-at-Large for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation from 2003 to 2004.
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