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German official serving with UN Kosovo mission promoted to top post

German official serving with UN Kosovo mission promoted to top post

The Secretary-General has informed the Security Council of his plans to appoint Ambassador Joachim Rücker from Germany as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), effective 1 September.

Mr. Rücker was previously UNMIK’s Deputy Special Representative and Head of the Economic Reconstruction component. He has also held several positions in the German Foreign Ministry.

Mr. Rücker would replace Mr. Søren Jessen-Petersen of Denmark, whose term ended earlier this year.

The UN has run Kosovo, an Albanian-majority Serbian province, since international forces drove out Yugoslav troops in 1999 amid ethnic fighting.