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| Mr Eliasson |
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed former Swedish foreign
minister Jan Eliasson as his deputy on Friday, describing him as a veteran in
the field of diplomacy and international relations.
He will take up his deputy secretary-general role on July 1, Ban said.
The current deputy, former Tanzanian Foreign Minister Asha-Rose Migiro, will
return to Tanzania when her term ends.
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| Dr Migiro |
Eliasson, a career diplomat who was Sweden's foreign minister in 2006,
has served as the U.N. chief of humanitarian affairs and, more recently, as the
U.N. special envoy to Darfur, Sudan at the height of the region's humanitarian
crisis.
"He was involved in emergency humanitarian operations and conflict
prevention in a number of hot spots like Sudan, Somalia, Mozambique and the
Balkans," Ban said.
Eliasson was also president of the 60th session of the U.N. General
Assembly in 2005-06, leading reform initiatives that resulted in the creation
of the U.N. Human Rights Council and Peacebuilding Commission.
Ban also appointed Argentinian Susana Malcorra, currently the
under-secretary-general of field support, as his chief of staff, starting April
1.
Source: Reuters,af.reuters.com, reported by Michelle Nichols at United Nations
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