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Press Release


SG/A/1232-BIO/4185-PA/7
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Tayé-Brook Zerihoun of Ethiopia as the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs in the Department of Political Affairs. Mr. Zerihoun replaces Haile Menkerios of South Africa, who has been appointed as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan for a one-year period.
EN/247
A report issued today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change calls for expanding energy access to more than 2 billion people, and for scaling up efforts to increase energy efficiency and clean energy initiatives to meet the climate challenge and realize the Millennium Development Goals.