Gerhard Pfanzelter

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Gerhard Pfanzelter, born in 1943 in Innsbruck, is the current Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations. He presented his credentials to the United Nations Secretary-General on September 7, 1999. In 2000 he served as Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, and in 2002 he became Vice-President of the 57th United Nations General Assembly. During the first half of 2006 he chaired the European Union in New York during Austria's Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Previously, from 1983 to 1989, Gerhard Pfanzelter had served as Austria's Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea and Mauritania. He then became the Ambassador to Syria for a four-year term, ending in 1993, when he became the Head of the Department for International Organizations in the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

His Excellency Dr. Gerhard Pfanzelter is the longest serving Austrian Ambassador ever at the United Nations.

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• Gerhard Pfanzelter's biography at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations