Biographical Note

United Nations-Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Gerda Verburg of the Netherlands as Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma announced today the appointment of Jeremiah Nyamane Kingsley Mamabolo of South Africa as Deputy Joint Special Representative for the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).

The new Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations, Mohamed Lemine El Haycen, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations, Martín García Moritan, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations, Juan Jose Gómez Camacho, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Lieutenant General Balla Keïta of Senegal as the Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Tamar Hahn of Israel Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Buenos Aires, which serves Argentina and Uruguay.  She assumes her duties on 10 February.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Jane Holl Lute of the United States as Special Coordinator on improving the United Nations response to sexual exploitation and abuse.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Jai Shanker Menon of India as the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Movses Abelian, born in Armenia and a national of Georgia, as Assistant Secretary-General of the Department of General Assembly and Conference Management.  He will succeed Catherine Pollard of Guyana, whom the Secretary-General has appointed as the Under-Secretary-General of the Department of General Assembly and Conference Management.