SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS IQBAL RIZA AS HIS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE AND COORDINATOR OF UN OPERATIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
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SG/A/618
SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS IQBAL RIZA AS HIS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE AND COORDINATOR OF UN OPERATIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
19960201 Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has appointed Iqbal Riza as his Special Representative and Coordinator of United Nations operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He will leave for Sarajevo over the weekend.Mr. Riza, a national of Pakistan, has been serving as Assistant Secretary-General in the Department of Peace-keeping Operations since March 1993. Before that he served from 1991 to 1993 as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Chief of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL).
He was also Chief of Mission of the United Nations Transition Team in El Salvador (March-August 1990); Chief of the United Nations Observer Mission for verification of the electoral process in Nicaragua (ONUVEN) (August 1989- February 1990); Director of the Division for Political and General Assembly Affairs (1988-1989); and Director of the Office for Special Political Affairs (1983-1988).
Mr. Riza also held the post of Principal Officer in the United Nations Department of Public Information (1980-1982) and Secretary of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (1978-1980).
Prior to joining the United Nations, he served with Pakistan's Foreign Service from 1958 to 1977.
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