On 29 December 2014, the General Assembly, in its resolution 69/246, requested the Secretary-General to appoint an independent panel of experts to examine and assess the probative value of new information related to the tragic death, in September 1961, of Dag Hammarskjöld and the members of the party accompanying him.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Miroslav Jenča of Slovakia as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Stephen O’Brien of the United Kingdom as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Michael Lollesgaard of Denmark as the Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Yannick Glemarec of France as Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) at the Assistant Secretary-General level. He will succeed John Hendra of Canada to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his commitment and dedicated service to the Organization.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pleased to announce the appointment of Damian Cardona-Onses of Spain as Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Dakar, Senegal.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Nesirky of the United Kingdom as Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Vienna, Austria.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pleased to announce the appointment of Juan-Miguel Diez of Mexico as Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Ján Kubiš of Slovakia as his Special Representative for Iraq and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointments of George Okoth-Obbo of Uganda as Assistant High Commissioner for Operations and Volker Türk of Austria as Assistant High Commissioner for Protection in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
