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Monrovia Diplomat to Head UN Political Office
Story Filed: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:20 AM EST
Feb 21, 2002 (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks/All Africa Global Media via
COMTEX) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a senior Liberian diplomat as his
new representative and head of the UN Political Office for Somalia.
According to a UN report, the new incumbent is Winston Tubman, formerly a senior
adviser to the chief of the UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM). He replaces David
Stephen "who did excellent work in Somalia
before taking up his new assignment in Guinea-Bissau recently", Annan said.
The UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Carolyn McAskie, who recently returned to
New York from a visit to Somalia, reiterated that
the international community should support grassroots efforts in Somalia
to rebuild the shattered nation.
"At the level of communities, the reality of Somalia
is very different from the image of what it was a few years ago," she told reporters
in New York. Stressing that she was "not trying to pretend" that the country had
suddenly transformed itself, now was however the right time for investment at grassroots
level.
She warned that the international community's emphasis on the political process in Somalia posed "the very serious risk of putting in
place a political structure that has nothing to anchor itself in".
She warned that the international community's emphasis on the political process in Somalia posed "the very serious risk of putting in
place a political structure that has nothing to anchor itself in".
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