Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Friends of the Central African Republic, delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in New York on 5 April:
Further to the announcement of 2 and 8 March 2012 on senior appointments, the Secretary-General has selected Carlos Lopes of Guinea-Bissau as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).