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Ambassador Christian Wenaweser
Permanent Representative of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the UN
Liechtenstein Mission to the United Nations, New York

Ambassador Wenaweser has served as Liechtenstein’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York since 1 October 2002 and has been working on issues relating to the United Nations for more than ten years. Wenaweser holds a number of important intergovernmental positions: In January 2004, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Open-Ended Working Group on Security Council Reform and has since played a central role in the intergovernmental consultations on this issue. In the context of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, Wenaweser is in charge of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression, which is mandated to draft proposals on a definition of the crime of aggression for the Rome Statute of the ICC. Since March 2003, he has acted as the Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee of the General Assembly negotiating on a protocol expanding the scope of application of the 1994 Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel. In 2002/2003, Wenaweser chaired the Third Committee of the General Assembly during its 57th session.

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