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CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Conference on Establishing a Middle East WMD-Free Zone: What Next?
Ali Asghar SOLTANIEH, Senior Researcher, Institute of Political International Studies (IPIS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Fmr. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna (2006–2013), Iran Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Within the last 30 years has been involved as a nuclear physicist and senior diplomat in numerous international events on disarmament and international security. A Chief Negotiator for the Additional Protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention. Vice President of several annual sessions of the General Conference of IAEA. Member of the negotiating team in the talks between Iran and the group EU3 on the Iranian Nuclear Program. In 2006-2013 Ambassador Soltanieh served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to the IAEA and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organizations in Vienna, including OPEC and OPEC Fund. 2002 – 2006 - Deputy Director-General for International Political Affairs at the MFA of Iran. 1999-2002 — Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva. 1996-1999 — Advisor to the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic and Secretary of the National Authority of the Chemical Weapons Convention. 1990-1996 — director of both Education and Manpower Mobilization Department of the AEOI and the Nuclear Engineering Department of the Organization. 1980-1990 — Director, Nuclear Research Centre to the Atomic Energy Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran (AEOI). During this period, was also Resident Representative of Iran to the IAEA. Record

CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Conference on Establishing a Middle East WMD-Free Zone: What Next?

Ali Asghar SOLTANIEH, Senior Researcher, Institute of Political International Studies (IPIS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Fmr. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna (2006–2013), Iran

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Within the last 30 years has been involved as a nuclear physicist and senior diplomat in numerous international events on disarmament and international security. A Chief Negotiator for the Additional Protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention. Vice President of several annual sessions of the General Conference of IAEA. Member of the negotiating team in the talks between Iran and the group EU3 on the Iranian Nuclear Program.

In 2006-2013 Ambassador Soltanieh served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to the IAEA and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organizations in Vienna, including OPEC and OPEC Fund. 2002 – 2006 - Deputy Director-General for International Political Affairs at the MFA of Iran. 1999-2002 — Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva.

1996-1999 — Advisor to the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic and Secretary of the National Authority of the Chemical Weapons Convention. 1990-1996 — director of both Education and Manpower Mobilization Department of the AEOI and the Nuclear Engineering Department of the Organization. 1980-1990 — Director, Nuclear Research Centre to the Atomic Energy Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran (AEOI). During this period, was also Resident Representative of Iran to the IAEA.

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