DAVID STEPHEN APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS VERIFICATION MISSION IN GUATEMALA
Press Release
SG/A/623
CA/121
DAVID STEPHEN APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS VERIFICATION MISSION IN GUATEMALA
19960510 Predecessor Leonardo Franco Is Praised by Secretary-General For Leadership of MINUGUA in Efforts to Advance Cause of PeaceThis statement was issued today by the spokesman for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:
The Secretary-General has decided to appoint David Stephen as Director of the United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights and of Compliance with the Commitments of the Comprehensive Agreement of Human Rights in Guatemala (MINUGUA). The appointment is effective as of 1 June.
Mr. Stephen will succeed Leonardo Franco who has headed MINUGUA since its establishment in November 1994 and who is returning to Geneva where he will rejoin the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Mr. Stephen, a national of the United Kingdom, has served in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General since 1992. A specialist in Latin American Government Studies with considerable experience of immigration, refugee and development issues in that region, he has headed the Latin American regional office of the International University Exchange Fund. He has also been Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Director of the United Kingdom's immigrant advisory service and Director of Corporate Relations of the Commonwealth Development Corporation.
The Secretary-General wishes to express his gratitude to Leonardo Franco for the effective and instrumental manner in which he conducted MINUGUA, allowing it to advance the cause of peace in Guatemala.
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