Philippe RATER

Agence France-Presse

Philippe has been working for Agence France-Presse (AFP)  for 30 years, notably as Paris defense correspondent (1989-1994), in Brussels as NATO correspondent (1994-1999),  in Washington as head of French Desk North America (2003-2008), diplomatic correspondent in Paris (2009-2012), head of International Department (2012-2016), and UN correspondent since August 2017. During those years, he covered a variety of stories on UN missions in Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Somalia and Haiti.

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