Denis Dangue Réwaka is a

Gabon Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and ...

ese diplomat who was the Permanent Representative of Gabon to the

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from 1988 to 2008. Dangue Réwaka became Second Counsellor at Gabon's Embassy to

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in January 1970. He was subsequently Gabon's Ambassador to the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

for a time before becoming its Permanent Representative to the UN on 11 October 1988. He served as President of the

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in February 1998 and May 1999, and he also served for a time as Chairman of the Credentials Committee. After nearly 20 years at the UN, Dangue Réwaka was replaced by

Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet Franck Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet (2 April 1961"Gabon : Emmanu ...

, who presented his credentials as Permanent Representative on 25 August 2008."New Permanent Representative of Gabon Presents Credentials"
UN Press Release, BIO/4013, 25 August 2008.

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