Hungary

Permanent Representative of Hungary to the UN

NAME                                           Andre Erdos

NATIONALITY                   Hungarian

NEW YORK ADDRESS
AND TELEPHONE                    227 East 52nd  Street, New York, NY 10022. Telephone (212) 752-0209

PERMANENT HOME
ADDRESS
AND TELEPHONE               Same

DATES OF SERVICE AS
PERMANENT
REPRESENTATIVE TO U.N   Since 1990

OTHER POSTINGS

MAIN INTERESTS                      Art, music, numasmatism, philatery, video
(INTELLECTUALl, CULTURAL
SOCIAL AND OTHER)

CURRICULUM VITAE AND DIPLOMATIC CAREER

Andre Erdos, the Permanent Representative of the Republic a, Hungary to the United Nations presented his
credentials 11 September 1997 to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Erdos was Deputy State Secretary for Foreign Affairs in charge of multilateral questions, a position to which he was named in 1994. In that capacity, he addressed matters relating to the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as well as such issues as disarmament and the question of national minorities. In 1995 Mr Erdos served as Vice President of the Review and Extension Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). He was also appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of Disarmament Matters by the then Secretary-General. Previously, in 1994, he had served as Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Commission. Mr. Erdos was Hungary's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1990 to 1994, representing his country, as well as in the Security Council in1992 and 1993. He served as a member of Hungarys delegation to the General Assembly sessions in 1984, 1985 and 1989, and was also assigned to Hungary's United Nations Mission from 1978 to 1983. In Served as special assistant to lmre Hollai of Hungary, the President of the thirty-seventh session of General Assembly. As a Staff member of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) Department in Hungary's Foreign Ministry, Mr. Eros took part in CSCE meetings in Geneva (1973-1975) and Belgrade (1977-1978), and attended the 1975 CSCE Summit Meeting in Helsinki. From 1984 to 1986, he was Adviser to Hungary's Foreign Minister. Subsequently, as Ambassador, he led Hungary's delegations to the Vienna CSCE follow-up meetings (1986-1989). Mr. Erdos graduated from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations in 1965, joninig the Hungarian Foreign Ministry that year in its Arab and Asian Departments. From 1968 to 1972, he served as Attache at the Embassy in Morocco. Born in     Algiers in 1941, Mr. Erdos is married and has one doughter. Address: 227 East 52nd Street, New York NY 10022-6301. Telephone: (212) 755-5419.  National holiday. 20 August.