Lê Lương Minh (born 1 September 1952)Permanent Mission of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
is a Vietnamese politician and diplomat who served as the 13th

secretary-general of ASEAN The secretary-general of ASEAN is the chief administrative officer of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The secretary-general must come from an ASEAN member state and will be appointed during the ASEAN Summit based on the alp ...

between 2013 and 2017.

Early life

Lê Lương Minh graduated from the

Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (also referred to as DAV, vi, Học viện Ngoại giao Việt Nam), is a public research university located in Hanoi, Vietnam and an administrative unit under management of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietn ...

Hanoi Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi i ...

, Vietnam in 1974, and the

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, India.

Political career

In 1975, he began his career in Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Deputy Director-General for International Organisations in 1993. In 1995, he was appointed as Ambassador – Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and Other International Organisations in Geneva. In 1997, he was appointed as Ambassador – Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations at Headquarters. Since February 17, 2004, he has been Vietnam's ambassador to the

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in New York City. He held this office from 1995 to 1997 for the UN institutions in Geneva and as a deputy in New York City from 1997 to 1999. He was the

President of the United Nations Security Council The presidency of the United Nations Security Council is responsible for leading the United Nations Security Council. It rotates among the 15 member-states of the council monthly. The head of the country's delegation is known as the President of t ...

in July 2008 and October 2009.Security Council Press Statement on the Kabul Bomb Attack
/ref> He was nominated ASEAN Secretary-General by the government of Vietnam, a post which he took over on January 1, 2013. The ASEAN leaders endorsed him as ASEAN Secretary-General for 2013–2017 in a ceremony at the bloc's headquarter in Jakarta on January 7, 2013.

Personal life

He is a native of Thanh Hóa, a coastal town 150 kilometers south of Vietnam's capital Hanoi. He is married and has two daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Le, Luong Minh 1952 births Communist Party of Vietnam politicians Living people Permanent Representatives of Vietnam to the United Nations Vietnamese diplomats Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni