Press Release

The Secretary-General has appointed John Hocking of Australia as the Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.

The Secretary-General has designated David Scheffer of the United States as the Special Expert to advise on the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials, for an initial period of six months, replacing Clint Williamson, whose term of office expired on 30 September 2011. The Secretary-General is grateful to Mr. Williamson for his service as Special Expert.

The new Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations, Ahmed Ould Teguedi, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The new Permanent Representative of Republic of Moldova to the United Nations, Vladimir Lupan, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The new Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations, George Wilfred Talbot, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva announced today their appointment of Ertharin Cousin (United States) as Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), at the Under-Secretary-General level, in succession to Josette Sheeran. The Executive Board of WFP has confirmed its concurrence with the appointment.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the World Future Energy Summit opening, in Abu Dhabi, 16 January:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the peace agreements in El Salvador, delivered today by Anders Kompass, Director, Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in San Salvador:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the fifteenth ordinary session of the Conference of Heads of State and Governments of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), read by Abou Moussa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, in N’Djamena, 15 January:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 15 January: