Nangyalai Tarzi | |
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Afghanistan Ambassador to India | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 2010 |
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President | Hamid Karzai |
Preceded by | Sayyed Makhdum Rahin |
Afghanistan Ambassador to United Nations Office at Geneva | |
In office 2007–2010 |
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Preceded by | Assad Omar |
Succeeded by | Zalmai Aziz |
Afghanistan Ambassador to Pakistan | |
In office 2002–2006 |
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Succeeded by | Mohammad Anwar Anwarzai |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Afghan |
Profession | Diplomat |
Nangyalai Tarzi (Persian: ننگیالی طرزی, Pashto: ننګیالۍ طرزۍ - also spelled as Nangialai Tarzi) is a high ranking Afghan diplomat who is currently the Afghan Ambassador in India. He previously was the Afghan permanent representative to United Nations Office in Geneva and the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan. In the 1970s and 80s he was the Permanent Political Observer of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to the UN.
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Nangyalai Tarzi is member of the prominent Afghan Tarzi family and is mentioned as notable member on the website of the Tarzi Family Historical Society.[1] He graduated from Kabul University with a degree in Law and Diplomatic Relations in 1964. He went on to complete a doctorate in International Public Law at the Faculte de Droit et Sciences Economiques in Paris, France in 1970. Dr. Tarzi began his career as a professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Kabul in 1964. Tarzi speaks English, French, Pashtu and Dari.
His diplomatic career began in 1970 by working for the Department of Information in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul. From 1970 until 1973 he was Second Secretary of the Afghan Permanent Mission to the United States. This ended after the coup of Mohammed Daoud Khan in 1973.
In 1979 after the Communist had seized power in Afghanistan, Tarzi began working as Diplomat for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. From 1979 until 1986 he was the Permanent Political Observer of the UCI to the UN. In 1986 he joined the Afghan services again and became Afghans Deputy Political Observer tp the OIC.
In 1992 after the fall of the Communist regime in Afghanistan he was Permanent Observer to the OIC. From 1997 to 2000 he was also Permanent Observer to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. In 2001 he became Director of the UN Information Centre in Teheran, Iran.
In 2002, after the fall of the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan he was appointed as Afghans Permanent Representative to Pakistan. He served from december 2002 till december 2006. As Ambassador to Pakistan he was member of a Tripartite Commission, composed of senior military and diplomatic representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States.[2]
In 2007 he was replaced and became the Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva. On January 3, 2007 he presented his credentials as the new Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, and other International Organizations in Switzerland to Sergei Ordzhonikidze the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.[3] Some of the International Organizations in which he served as Permanent Representative include the World Health Organization, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the World Trade Organization.
In 2010 he switched positions again and became Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to India. Tarzi has expressed wishes to further strengthen bilateral ties between India and Afghanistan: "India has stood with Afghanistan in rebuilding their nation during the periods of war, misery and destruction." [4]
Date | Representing | Position | Mission |
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2010–Present | Afghanistan | Ambassador | Embassy of Afghanistan, New Delhi |
2007–2010 | Afghanistan | Permanent Representative | United Nations, Geneva |
2002–2006 | Afghanistan | Permanent Representative | Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
2001–2002 | United Nations | Director | U.N. Information Center, Tehran |
1997–2000 | Afghanistan | Permanent Observer | United Nations Industrial Development Organization |
1992–2000 | Afghanistan | Permanent Observer | Organisation of the Islamic Conference (U.N. OIC) |
1986–1992 | Afghanistan | Deputy Political Observer | Organisation of the Islamic Conference (U.N. OIC) |
1979–1986 | Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) | Permanent Political Observer | United Nations |
1970–1973 | Afghanistan | Second Secretary | Afghan Permanent Mission to the United States |
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