Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the Centre for International Peace and Stability of the National University of Science and Technology, in Islamabad, Pakistan, 13 August:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Haoliang Xu of China as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Development Programme.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Peter de Clercq of the Netherlands as his Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, where he will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative.