A resident representative is the head of a
United Nations
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agency (such as
UNDP
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...
,
UNICEF
UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing Humanitarianism, humanitarian and Devel ...
,
WHO) in a given country. As such, the resident representative has the same rank as an ambassador of a foreign state accredited to that country, under the
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.
http://untreaty.un.org/unts/120001_144071/29/4/00024056.pdf - Original text
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