Ambassador Christopher Onyanga Aparr, Uganda’s Head of Mission and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations, has died.
According to Adonia Ayebare, the Permanent Representative to the UN, Aparr passed on yesterday in Geneva but with no details about the cause of his death.
His profile on
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website indicates that Aparr was also a
representative at the World Trade Organisation, and Ambassador to the Swiss
Confederation Council in Bern.
Ambassador Aparr was also the coordinator of Least
Developed Countries from January 2014 to March 2015.
At the UN, the ministry says, he was involved in discussions and formulations
of binding Principles and Regulations as applied by affiliated organisations
like Human Rights Council, International Telecommunications Union, World Health
Organisation and International Labour Organisation among others.
Before being Ambassador, he was a senior government valuer in charge of land and real estate appraisal in the Ministry of Lands. May his soul rest in peace. END