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Turk chosen to head UN development agenda

26 April 2005
Choosing from over 100 nominations by Governments and other institutions, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named a Turkish former World Bank executive, who was responsible for developing new poverty reduction strategies, to head the UN Development Programme (UNDP) for the next four years.

List of candidates for top UN development post released

22 March 2005
The United Nations today made public a short list of candidates to head the UN Development Programme (UNDP), which is mandated to give countries needed information, experience and resources for development, as well as chair the UN Development Group (UNDG), which coordinates the operational UN agencies in individual Member States.

Head of UN food agency condemns murder of South African employee

9 August 2002
The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today condemned the murder of a South African employee of the agency's Johannesburg office during an armed robbery Thursday evening.