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New Permanent Observer of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Presents Letter of Nomination to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

New Permanent Observer of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Presents Letter of Nomination to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Media Release Courtesy of the United Nations Information Service (Geneva)

Colin Murdoch, the new Permanent Observer of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States to the United Nations Office at Geneva, on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, presented his letter of nomination to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. 

 

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Murdoch, who is a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda, had been serving as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda since 2016.  He was Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Immigration from 2014 to 2016, a post he also held from 1995 to 2009.  He was Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Commerce from 2009 to 2014.

Mr. Murdoch has also served as the Commissioner for Antigua and Barbuda to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States since 2011, and as Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the World Trade Organization since 2013.  He was a Foreign Service Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1986, and a Senior Foreign Service Officer from 1989 to 1994.  He also served as non-resident Ambassador to Cuba from 1997 to 2004.  

Mr. Murdoch has a master’s degree from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States; a graduate diploma from the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago; and a bachelor’s degree from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

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The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean. The OECS came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other while promoting unity and solidarity among its Members. The Treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed. The OECS today, currently has eleven members, spread across the Eastern Caribbean comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique and Guadeloupe. 

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