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NEW YORK, June 22 (KUNA) -- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced on Thursday the appointment of Ghassan Salame of Lebanon as his Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
Salame will succeed Martin Kobler of Germany, to whom Guterres is grateful for his dedication and service, as well as for his effective leadership of UNSMIL, the UN Chief's press office said.
He brings to this position over three decades of experience in public service and academia.
In 2003, he served as the Political Advisor to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), where he played a crucial role in bringing together Iraqi factions. He was then appointed as Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General (2003-2007, 2012). In 2016, he joined the Commission on the Rakhine State (Myanmar) chaired by Mr. Kofi Annan.
For most of his career, Salame was professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po (Paris) and he is the founding Dean of its Paris School of International Affairs - PSIA. (end)
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