Tarakinikini commissioned as Fiji’s PRUN

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Filipo Tarakinikini and his wife Amele Tabuya-Tarakinikini pictured with First Lady Filomena Katonivere after he was commissioned as Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (PRUN). Picture: FIJI GOVERNMENT

Former senior military officer Filipo Tarakinikini was recently commissioned by the President, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, as Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (PRUN).

Mr Tarakinikini who served the Republic of Fiji Military Forces for 22 years before retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 2002 takes over the duties of PRUN from Dr Satyendra Prasad.

He will be based in New York.

He became the Chief of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Section at the UNDSS, in the Headquarters in New York in 2018 where he led UN inter-agency assessment missions to countries like Iraq, and Syria; facilitated the establishment of the UN monitoring missions in Yemen, Iraq and Libya and led numerous field assistance missions.

And he was part of the strategic assessment team for the UNSMIL mission in Libya in 2022.

 

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