Zahir Tanin

Infobox Officeholder
honorific-prefix =H.E.
name =Zahir Tanin
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birth_date =Birth date and age|1956|5|1|D=MY

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office =Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Afghanistan
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term_start =December 2006
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office2 =Vice President to the United Nations General Assembly
term_start2 =September 2008
term_end2 =September 2009

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Zahir Tanin, born on 1 May 1956, is the Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Afghanistan. He assumed the position in December 2006. He is married with two children. [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/bio3825.doc.htm United Nations Press Release: Biography of Zahir Tanin] United Nations Press Release, retrieved 2008-09-12]

Education

Mr. Tanin is a graduate of the Kabul Medical University. He has completed BBC broadcasting, media management, finance management and other courses, including a one-year BBC leadership program.

Career

Tanin began his career in 1980 working as a journalist in Kabul. He co-authored, "The Communist Regime in Afghanistan", a study of the political and social changes in Afghanistan from 1978 to 1992. He also authored, "Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century". He produced a 29-part program, "The Oral History of Afghanistan in the 20th Century", that was later broadcast on the BBC. After 1992, Tanin was a freelance writer in France and Editor-in-Chief of Afkbar-e-Haftah and Sabawoon Magazine until 1993. Before beginning a career at the BBC, he was at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Research Fellow at the International Relations Department from 1994 to 1995.

Mr. Tanin worked as Producer, 1995 to 2000; Senior Producer, (2000 to 2001), and was an editor for BBC World Service, Afghanistan and Central Asia (Persian Section) from 2001 to 2003. Following this he was an editor for Persian/Pashto Section, in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2006, before taking his appointment as Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Afghanistan announced, in June 2008, that Zahir Tanin was selected as a Deputy President (Vice-President) of the U.N. General Assembly. He has taken the position for a year, which began September 2008. [ [http://www.mfa.gov.af/detail.asp?Lang=e&Cat=2&ContID=732 Dr. Zahir Tanin, the Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.N. to take the Deputy President of the U.N. General Assembly] Ministry of Foreign Affairs Afghanistan, retrieved 2008-09-12] Each year the U.N. General Assembly elects a new President, 21 Vice Presidents, and Chairmen for the Assembly's six main committees. [ [http://www.un.org/ga/55/bgrdga.htm About the General Assembly] , 55th Session of the General Assembly, retrieved 2008-09-22]

ee also

*List of Permanent Representatives to the UN

References