Somalia: Annan appoints senior Liberian diplomat to head UN political office

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to appoint a senior diplomat from Liberia to be his new Representative and head of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia.

In an exchange of letters with the President of the Security Council released today at UN Headquarters in New York, the Secretary-General says he intends to appoint Winston A. Tubman to succeed David Stephen, “who did excellent work in Somalia before taking up his new assignment in Guinea-Bissau recently.”

Mr. Tubman previously served as a senior adviser to the chief of the UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM).