NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MONGOLIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MONGOLIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
19960919 Biographical Note Jargasaikhany Enkhsaikhan, the new Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.Before his new appointment, Mr. Enkhsaikhan was his country's Permanent Representative-designate of Mongolia to the United Nations. Previously, he had occupied the post of Secretary of the Mongolian National Security Council for three years, following service as an adviser to the President of Mongolia and Minister-Counsellor of the Mongolian Embassy in Moscow.
Mr. Enkhsaikhan began work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as secretary of the Legal Department in 1974. In 1979 he became secretary of the Mongolian Mission to the United Nations in New York, and in 1986 he was appointed acting head of the Legal and Policy Planning Departments at the Foreign Ministry.
While in the foreign service, Mr. Enkhsaikhan participated in the United Nations General Assembly sessions in 1975, from 1979 to 1986 and in 1992. In 1979 he was Rapporteur of the Sixth Committee (Legal) and in 1983 he was the Committee's vice-chairman, a position he held the following year with the Special Committee on the Non-Use of Force in International Relations. From 1976 to 1982 he represented Mongolia at the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.
The author of numerous articles on international relations and international law, Mr. Enkhsaikhan was born on 4 September 1950 in Ulaanbaatar and is married with six children.
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