Chinmaya Gharekhan
{{Short description|Indian diplomat}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{more footnotes needed|date=December 2013}}
{{ Infobox office holder
| name = Chinmaya R. Gharekhan
| office = Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
| term_start = October 1986
| term_end = December 1992
| predecessor = Natarajan Krishnan
| successor = Mohammad Hamid Ansari }}
Chinmaya R. Gharekhan (born July 4, 1934) is a former Indian diplomat. He has been longest serving Permanent representative of India to the United Nations and president of United Nations Economic and Social Council.{{Cite web |title='Americans will need the United Nations' |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2003/may/01inter.htm |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=Rediff |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=UN Economic and Social Council |url=https://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/president/former_presidents.shtml |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=www.un.org |language=EN}}
Early life
Career
He served as chairman of International Control Commission in Laos from 1973 to 1975, Indian ambassador to Vietnam from 1975 to 1976, Indian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva from 1977 to 1980, advisor on foreign affairs to the prime minister of India from 1981 to 1986.
He served as India's permanent representative to the United Nations, and was elected to be the president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1990.{{Cite web|url=http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/president/former_presidents.shtml|title=UN Economic and Social Council|website=www.un.org|language=EN|access-date=2019-02-28}}
In January 1993 was appointed by the UN Secretary General as a special envoy to the Middle East peace process in the capacity of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, a position he held until 1999.[https://uniteapps.un.org/dpa/dpr/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/fea5ecfaabd6dd27052567f300510f16?OpenDocument Kofi Annan to Pres. of the Security Council] From 2005 to 2009 he served as special envoy of India for the Middle East.
He was president of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
External links
- [http://www.pearsoned.co.in/web/authors/2274/Chinmaya-R_Gharekhan.aspx A brief bio of Gharekhan]
- [http://www.iman-worldwide.org/about-us/advisory-board/ambassador-chinmaya-gharekhan-retd-india another biography]
- [http://vimeo.com/16106585 Chinmaya Gharekhan at the World Affairs Council of Northern California]
- [http://www.csmonitor.com/1993/0106/06011.html UN Envoy Seeks to Break Impasse Over Israel's Expulsion of Muslims]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMdrZewQPOo Indira Loved Brits, Wanted The Nobel, Treated Ambassadors With Contempt, Filed Her Nails At Meetings]
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Category:Ambassadors of India to Vietnam
Category:Permanent representatives of India to the United Nations
Category:Indian officials of the United Nations
Category:Special Envoys of the Secretary-General of the United Nations
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