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Ambassador Christoph Heusgen has been the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations since July 2017.
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Dr. Christoph Heusgen has been the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations since July 2017 and has since 2019 been Germany’s representative on the Security Council.
Before to coming to New York, Ambassador Heusgen served for 12 years as Foreign Policy and Security Advisor to the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel. His career in the Foreign Service also included terms as Deputy Head in charge of European Affairs in the private office of Foreign Minister Kinkel (1993-1997), and Director of the Policy Unit of the High Representative Javier Solana in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels (1999-2005).
Ambassador Heusgen attended the University of St. Gallen and received a PhD from Sorbonne University in Paris in 1980. He joined the German Foreign Office shortly thereafter
and his first post was at the Consulate General in Chicago (1983-1986).
Ambassador Heusgen is married and has four children.
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen on the resolution in support of UNSG’s call for a global ceasefire in the face of COVID-19, July 1, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council VTC Meeting on Non-proliferation, June 30, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council VTC Meeting on the humanitarian situation in Syria, June 29, 2020
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Statement by the co-penholders for the Syria humanitarian file – Germany and Belgium – in the Security Council VTC Meeting on the humanitarian situation in Syria, June 29, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council VTC Meeting on the Middle East, June 24, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council VTC Meeting on BINUH, June 19, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Heusgen in the Security Council VTC Meeting on Syria (political), June 16, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council VTC meeting on the Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, June 8, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council VTC meeting on the cooperation between the UN and the EU, May 28 , 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen on World Environment Day, June 5, 2020