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BAN
KI-MOON NAMES TOP NEW U.N.
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UNITED NATIONS - /
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UN/ - 12 February 2007 -- Ban Ki-moon
has named four new senior officials to his
cabinet and retained about a dozen others from
the former team of Kofi Annan.
Vijay
Nambiar, the Secretary-General's Chef de
Cabinet, told a press
briefing, that Ban needs to make changes
while maintaining continuity and promoting
mobility as discussions continue over the
restructuring the organization.
Ban
named a U.S. diplomat as chief political
officer, a Chinese veteran of international
organizations to head economic and social
affairs, a Japanese international civil servant
to manage public information and an Egyptian
diplomat to oversee the management of the
General Assembly.
Last
month Ban asked nearly all assistant and
under-secretaries-general to tender their
resignations to allow him “the flexibility he
needs in forming his new team.”
B.
Lynn Pascoe, currently US Ambassador to
Indonesia, was appointed Under-Secretary-General
for Political Affairs, succeeding Ibrahim
Gambari, a Nigerian. He has previously served as
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
European and Eurasian Affairs and U.S. Special
Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Regional
Conflicts.
He
was US Co-Chair of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group
seeking negotiated resolution to the conflict
between Azerbaijan and Armenia over
Nagorno-Karabakh. He has also served as Director
of the American Institute in Taiwan, Province of
China, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in
the East Asian and Pacific Bureau of the State
Department, and Deputy US Chief of Mission in
Beijing.
In
over three decades of his diplomatic career, he
has held positions on the Soviet and China
desks, and has been posted to Moscow, Hong Kong,
Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, as well as to Beijing
twice, Taipei and Kuala Lumpur. He speaks
mandarin Chinese.
Ambassador
Sha
Zukang, currently China’s Permanent
Representative to the UN Office at Geneva, was
named Under-Secretary-General for Economic and
Social Affairs in succession to José Antonio
Ocampo of Colombia. Mr. Sha, who has wide
experience on disarmament issues, is also
well-versed in economic and social development.
Over
his 37 years of a diplomatic career, his
portfolios covered a wide range of fields
including security, economy, social affairs,
human rights and humanitarian affairs. In recent
years, he served respectively as the Chairperson
of the Government Group of the Governing Body of
the UN International Labour Organization (ILO),
President of the UN Trade and Development Board,
Chairman of the Preparatory Committee and the
Committee of the Whole of UN Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD).
He
was also elected or appointed as president,
vice-president, chairman, coordinator and expert
in many international conferences in the field
of trade, intellectual property, social affairs
and telecommunications.
Kiyotaka
Akasaka of Japan, currently Deputy
Secretary-General of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
becomes Under-Secretary-General for
Communications and Public Information,
succeeding Shashi Tharoor of India. He has been
closely involved throughout his career with the
work of multilateral organizations.
Mr.
Akasaka was Deputy Director-General in the
Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Multilateral
Cooperation Department from 1997 to 2000,
participating as one of his country’s top
negotiators in the Kyoto Conference on Climate
Change and various other international
conferences. Between 2000 and 2001 he was
Japan’s UN Ambassador.
He
has also held posts at the Secretariat of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT),
precursor of the UN World Trade Organisation (WTO),
and at the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
He has held a number of positions in the field
of communications and public relations, serving
in the Japanese Foreign Ministry as Deputy
Director of the Press Division and spokesman on
climate change. He has also been deeply involved
in OECD public information activities.
Muhammad
Shaaban of Egypt, currently National
Coordinator for Reform Initiatives in the Middle
East, was named Under-Secretary-General for
General Assembly and Conference Management,
succeeding Jian Chen of China.
No
stranger to the UN and multilateral diplomacy,
Mr. Shaaban has served as Assistant Foreign
Minister for European Affairs and was National
Coordinator for the Euro-Mediterranean
Partnership, the Mediterranean Forum and the
OSCE. He also served as Assistant Minister for
Information, Research and Assessment and
National Coordinator for Information, Research
and Assessment.
Between
1984 and 1988, he was Egypt’s representative
to the UN Second Committee dealing with economic
and financial affairs, the UN Economic and
Social Council (ECOSOC) and the UN Development
Programme (UNDP).
Among
those who Mr. Ban retained from the former
administration of Secretary-General Kofi Annan
were Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping
Operations Jean-Marie Guéhenno,
Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs
Nicolas Michel, Under-Secretary-General for
Safety and Security David Veness and
Under-Secretary-General at the UN Office for
Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) Inga-Britt
Ahlenius.
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