By Tangerine Clarke
Diplomat Rudolph Michael
Ten-Pow, who began his career
in the Foreign Service of Guyana
in 1980 as desk officer for
Venezuela, has announced that
his tenure as Guyana’s permanent
representative to the United
Nations ended on July 31.
Ambassador Ten-Pow, who
was accredited as the permanent
representative and ambassador
extraordinary and plenipotentiary
of Guyana to the
United Nations on Aug. 22,
2016, said “it has been a privilege
and honor of a lifetime
to have served as our country’s
ambassador to the United
Nations, these past four years.”
The diplomat, who presented
his letters of credence to then,
Secretary-General of the United
Nations, Ban Ki-moon, in
a ceremony at United Nations
Headquarters in New York, and
later on, elected by acclamation
as a vice-president of the 73rd
UN General Assembly, recalls
that his period of service has
been challenging, but an exciting
one.
“Current difficulties notwithstanding,
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our country
brims with potential and is
poised for rapid material and
human development,” wrote
the diplomat, adding, “It is a
good time to be a Guyanese.”
Ten-Pow who was also head
of the Frontiers Division, before
joining the United Nations in
1986 as a translator for French
and Spanish and served for
several years at the Economic
Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
in Santiago, Chile, expressed
gratitude to his staff.
“For me, it has been a source
of great satisfaction to have
gotten to know the many Guyanese
staff members of the
United Nations Secretariat and
in the wider diaspora in the
New York area,” he said.
The diplomat who was actively
involved in the Guyanese
diaspora, delivering speeches,
cake cutting at Independence
commemoration at Brooklyn
Borough Hall, jovial at Republic
celebrations at the Guyana
Consulate, and showing support
for alumni associations,
said, he will treasure fondly the
memories.
“I will treasure fondly the
memories of our interactions at
the numerous functions hosted
by the Permanent Mission at
Christmas, national commemorative
days, and during the
visits of the of the Head of State
to the United Nations for the
annual General Assembly.
“My wife, Bonnie, joins
me in expressing our sincere
appreciation for my enthusiastic
support and your unfailing
attendance at these function,”
he said.
Ten-Pow, served as reviser,
training officer, chief of the
English Translation Service
and acting director of the
Documentation Division of the
United Nations.
During 2013-2015, he joined
the World Bank in Washington
DC as senior program manager
for Conference Services,
returning to the United Nations
in 2015 as acting director of the
Documentation Division and
later as special adviser to the
Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams (right) presents a
citation to GuyanaÕs Ambassador to UN, Rudolph M. Ten-
Pow at a past Independence Celebration.
Photo by Tangerine Clarke
United Nations coordinator for
multilingualism.
In his goodbye letter, the
diplomat, who received a Bachelor
of Arts Degree in French,
Spanish and Portuguese from
the University of Guyana with
distinction, and earned Postgraduate
Diplomas in Translation
and Interpretation from
the University of Geneva, Switzerland
and a Master’s Degree
in Liberal Studies with a concentration
in International
Relations from the City University
of New York, said.
Guyana’s Ambassador to UN,
Rudolph M. Ten-Pow bids farewell
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