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Interview with Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs

02/17/2008

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On 2 July 2007, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Sergio de Queiroz Duarte of Brazil as the High Representative for Disarmament at the Under-Secretary-General level. Mr. Duarte is not a newcomer to diplomacy for he served for 48 years in the Brazilian Foreign Service before taking up his new position in the United Nations. He has a solid experience of disarmament issues to his credit, and we might mention in passing that he was a…

In memory of Ambassador Yuli Vorontsov, Special Envoy of the United Nations, Secretary-General for CIS and former First-Deputy Foreign-Minister of the USSR

02/17/2008

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On 12 December 2007, Russia lost one of its corner stone career diplomats – Ambassador Yuli Vorontsov, aged 78, whose unique international experience made him a highly regarded figure in international diplomacy. Ambassador Yuli Vorontsov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Relations (MGIMO) in 1952, and rose quickly through the diplomatic ranks to the post of First Deputy Foreign Minister. He played important roles in some of the watershed events of the Cold War, from arm talks…