Marius Grinius

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Marius Grinius is the Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland.[1] He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1971. He joined the Canadian foreign service in 1979. He has served abroad in Bangkok (twice), Brussels (NATO), Hanoi and again in Hanoi from 1997 to 1999 as Ambassador to Vietnam. He served in the Arms Control and Disarmament Division, and later, as the Director of the Asia Pacific South Relations Division and the Southeast Asia Division, at Foreign Affairs headquarters in Ottawa.[2]

Grinius transferred to the Privy Council Office (PCO) in 1999, where he served in the Social Development Policy Secretariat. He was subsequently appointed Director General of the Western Economic Diversification Canada. Returning to the PCO, he served as the Director of the Operations, Security and Intelligence Secretariat from 2002 to 2004.[2] He was Ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 2004-2007.[1]

He has a strong interest in arms control[3], and has visited Pyongyang to stress Canada's calls for North Korea halt its nuclear weapons program.[4]

Grinius is married and has two sons.

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  1. ^ a b NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CANADA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG. United Nations Office at Geneva (2007-08-29).
  2. ^ a b DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS. Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (2004-08-12).
  3. ^ http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/061118/w111815A.html[dead link]
  4. ^ "Canadian diplomat sent to North Korea with strong message on nuclear issue", Associated Press, 2006-11-18.