Biographical Note

The new Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, Liu Jieyi, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Latvia to the United Nations, Janis Mazeiks, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the United Nations, Andrej Logar, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Palau to the United Nations, Caleb Tyndale Okauchi Otto, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pleased to announce the appointment of Kaoru Nemoto as Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Tokyo, Japan. She assumed her new duties on 28 August.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Imam Edy Mulyono of Indonesia as Force Commander of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Lieutenant General Maqsood Ahmed of Pakistan as the Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations, replacing Senegal’s Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye, whose tour of duty ended on 8 July.

The new Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations, Durga P. Bhattarai, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The new Permanent Representative of Kiribati to the United Nations, Makurita Baaro, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

Milan Milanović, the new Permanent Representative of Serbia to the United Nations, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.