Biographical Note
FUAD MUBARAK AL-HINAI OF OMAN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF THIRD COMMITTEE
Fuad Mubarak Al-Hinai, who was elected Chairman of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) for the General Assembly’s fifty-sixth session this afternoon, has been the permanent representative of Oman to the United Nations since August 1998.� He began his association with the United Nations in August 1974, when he served as Second Secretary/First Secretary of the permanent Mission of Oman to the United Nations.� He held that position until July 1978.
Prior to his appointment to the United Nations in 1998, Mr. Al-Hinai was Deputy Chief of the International Conferences and Organizations Department in Oman’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.� He was first appointed Deputy Chief in
1982 and held that position again from November 1984 to December 1986.� He had previously served the Mission in a number of other capacities, including Deputy Chief/Training Department, and as Second Secretary.
From December 1986 to August 1992, he served as Counsellor/Charge d’Affaires of Oman to Brunei Darussalam.� He was First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of Oman to the United Nations Office in Geneva (1983-1984) and Oman’s Embassy in Egypt (1979-1982).
Mr. Al-Hinai was elected Rapporteur of the Third Committee in 1977.� He has also attended many United Nations conferences and meetings, including:� the Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, Rome, Italy; the 1995 World Summit for Social Development; and the fourth, fifth and sixth sessions of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, in New York.� In 1975, he attended the Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and in 1983, he attended the International Conference on the Question of Palestine, held in Geneva.
Mr. Al-Hinai holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Kuwait.� He was born in 1951 and is married with two children.
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