SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JACQUES PAUL KLEIN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
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SG/A/699
SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JACQUES PAUL KLEIN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
19990713 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Jacques Paul Klein as his Special Representative and Coordinator for United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr. Klein, who has served previously as the United Nations Transitional Administrator for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, is presently the Principal Deputy High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Mr. Klein will succeed Elizabeth Rehn, who has served as the Secretary- General's Special Representative since January 1998. Mrs. Rehn, who has now decided to return to Finland, has led the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina with great distinction. During her term in office, decisive steps forward towards democratic and multi-ethnic policing in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been made. The opening of police academies in both the Bosniac-Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska, with considerable minority representation in the student body, are a tangible expression of the dynamic work done by the United Nations Mission under Mrs. Rehn's leadership.
The Secretary-General expresses his gratitude to Mrs. Rehn, and his best wishes to Mr. Klein who will assume his post on 2 August 1999.
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