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Urbina received a master in law degree from the University of Costa Rica and a doctorate in law from the University of Bordeaux.
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Jorge Urbina
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He assumed the position in October 2006. From 1982 to 1984, Urbina was the Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Costa Rica. After this appointment, he was Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs for two years from 1984 to 1986.
In 1986, Urban then moved to the position of the Executive President of the National Institute for Municipal Counselling and Promotion until 1990.
He also served as Costa Rica’s Minister of Information from 1989 to 1990. After that, he served as a permanent consultant at the Programme for Democratic Governance in Central America, United Nations Development from 1993 to 1998.
Until he was appointed Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mr. Urbina was a Programme Coordinator at the International Centre for Human Development, San José, Costa Rica, from 1998 to 2006.
On 11 March 2009, Higher Education Jorge Urbina lead a four day United Nations Security Council fact finding mission to Haiti to assess the impact of aide provided to the country through United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the United Nations Development Programme (United Nations Development Programme).
In his later report to the United Nations, he stated, "lieutenant was evident to the mission that the current levels of extreme poverty, in which 80 per cent of the people live on under two dollars a day and 50 per cent on under one dollar are incompatible with the goal to establish stability in the short term.".
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