Ambassador Ellen Løj Speaks on Denmark's Experience on the Security Council

On Thursday, December 14, 2006, Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Løj, the Permanent Representative of Denmark to the UN gave a lively and well attended talk titled Denmark's Experience From Serving Two Years in the Security Council as an Elected Member, held in the elegant Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York.

Ambassador Løj returned to New York as Permanent Representative of Denmark in 2001, twenty years after she had served as First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Denmark between 1977 and 1980. Prior to this, she had a distinguished tenure as State Secretary of the South Group in Denmark's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Group responsible for Denmark's relations with countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and some of the Pacific region. Ambassador Løj also served as Denmark's Ambassador to Israel from 1989 to 1992.