[misc.headlines.unitex] UN PRESS: NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF POLAND

unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) (08/14/89)

UN PRESS: NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF POLAND

     Stansilaw Pawlak, the new Permanent Representative of Poland, presented
his credentials today to Secretary-General Javier P|rez de Cu|llar.

     Mr. Pawlak has served as Director at the Department of International
Organizations of Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1986.  He has been
a member of the International Law Commission since 1987 and Associate
Professor of International Law and International Relations at Warsaw
University since 1974.

     After joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1955, Mr. Pawlak served
as Legal Adviser of the Polish delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory
Commission in Korea (1957-1958).  He was Attach|, then Second Secretary, of
Poland's Embassy in Tokyo from 1958 to 1963, and served as Senior Counsellor
at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1963 to 1965.

     Mr. Pawlak was Deputy Chief of the Polish delegation and Senior Political
Adviser at the International Control Commission for Supervision and Control in
Viet Nam in 1965-1966; in 1966 and 1967 he was Senior Counsellor at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from 1967 to 1970 he was First Secretary of
Poland's Embassy in Washington.  He also served as Senior Counsellor at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1970-1973), Deputy Director of the Minister's
Cabinet at the Foreign Ministry (1973-1975), and Director of the Ministry's
Department of International Organizations (1975-1978).  From 1978 to 1983, he
served as Ambassador to Canada, and was Director of the Legal and Treaties
Department of the Foreign Ministry from 1983 to 1985.

     Mr. Pawlak is a member of the following bodies:  the editorial board of
the Recueil de documents, published by the Polish Institute of International
Affairs; the Legislative Council to the Prime Minister of Poland; the Science
Council of the Polish Institute of International Affairs; the Science Council
of the Institute of International Law of Warsaw University; and the editorial
board of the Polish Yearbook of International Law.

     Educated at the Law Faculty, Warsaw University, Mr. Pawlak received his
LL.M in 1955, his Dr. Juris in 1967, and his Dr. hab. of Political Science in
1973.  He also attended Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, in 1960 and 1961.

     Mr. Pawlak was born on 27 September 1933 in Kalisz, Poland.  He is
married and has one daughter.

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