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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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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 Heusgen in the Security Council VTC Meeting on Syria (political), May 18, 2020
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Joint Statement by Germany and Belgium during the UN Security Council VTC Meeting on Syria (Humanitarian), May 19, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Heusgen in the Security Council VTC Meeting on Syria (humanitarian), May 19 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Heusgen during the Security Council VTC Meeting on Bosnia-Herzegovina, May 6, 2020
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Statement by the co-penholders for the Syria humanitarian file – Germany and Belgium – during the UN Security Council VTC Meeting on the humanitarian situation in Syria, April 29, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Heusgen during the UN Security Council VTC Meeting on the political situation in Syria, April 29, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Heusgen during the Security Council VTC Meeting on UNAMID, April 24, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Heusgen during the Security Council VTC Arria Meeting on Climate and Security, April 22, 2020
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Remarks by Ambassador Heusgen during the Security Council VTC Meeting on Yemen, April 16, 2020