Veteran civil servant appointed as UN envoy for Cyprus

Secretary-General Kofi Annan today notified the Security Council of his intention to appoint a veteran United Nations civil servant his Special Representative in Cyprus and head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).

Michael Møller of Denmark is currently Mr. Annan's Acting Deputy Chef de Cabinet, a position he took up in March, as well as the Director in the Executive Office for Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs.

He has been employed in a range of political positions since he joined the UN in 1979 and has held several senior advisory positions in the UN Secretariat from 1997 to 2001. His field assignments included serving as head of the UN Component in Joint UN-Organization of American States (OAS) Civilian Mission to Haiti (MICIVH) in 1993, head of the sub-office for Southern Mexico in the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1988 and political adviser to the UN Military Inspection Team in Iran in 1985.

Mr. Møller holds a master's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University in the United States and an undergraduate degree in the same field from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.