OLIVER JACKMAN APPOINTED PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN BORDER CONTROVERSY BETWEEN GUYANA AND VENEZUELA

Press Release
SG/A/709/Rev.1*

OLIVER JACKMAN APPOINTED PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN BORDER CONTROVERSY BETWEEN GUYANA AND VENEZUELA

The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Oliver Jackman of Barbados as his Personal Representative on the Border Controversy between Guyana and Venezuela.

Mr. Jackman will succeed Sir Alister McIntyre, of Grenada, who has acted as the Personal Representative of the Secretary-General since 1990.

Mr. Jackman, an attorney-at-law of Barbados, was elected in 1995 for a six-year term as Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He was entrusted with many responsibilities in the field of Human rights: from 1986 to 1993, he served as a member of the Haitian Truth and Justice Commission; and more recently as a member of the Barbados Social justice Commission and member of the Barbados Constitution Review Commission.

During his twenty years in the Barbados diplomatic service, from 1967 to 1986, Mr. Jackman held various positions. Among others, he was Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1984-1986), Ambassador to the European Community and Belgium (1981-1984), Ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (1977-1981), High Commissioner to Canada (1971-1975), and Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1969- 1971).

From 1961 to 1967, Mr. Jackman served the United Nations in the United Nations Operation in the Congo and as Chief Information Officer at the Economic Commission for Africa.

Mr. Jackman’s appointment as Personal Representative of the Secretary-General on the Border Controversy between Guyana and Venezuela will be effective on 1 November.

The Secretary-General wishes to express his gratitude to Sir Alister McIntyre for the distinguished manner in which he conducted the Secretary-General’s Good Offices.

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________________ * Reissued for technical reasons.