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Kofi Annan Names a British As New Mission Chief in Liberia

Liberian Observer (Monrovia)
NEWS
July 16, 2005
Posted to the web July 16, 2005

Alan Doss, a 60-year old career diplomat and a citizen of United Kingdom, will
take over from retired US Air Force Major-General Jacques Paul Klein who
stepped down at the end of April 2005.
The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has informed the Security
Council of his intention to appoint the deputy chief of the United Nations
peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire as the UN Secretary-General's Special
Representative in Liberia.
Alan Doss, a 60-year old career diplomat and a citizen of United Kingdom, will
take over from retired US Air Force Major-General Jacques Paul Klein who
stepped down at the end of April 2005.
The new UN Secretary-General's Special Representative has had a long and
distinguished career with the world's body, having served as Deputy Special
Representative of the Secretary-General in Cote d'Ivoire since June 2004.
Before that, he was deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in
Sierra Leone, while concurrently holding the positions there of UN Resident
Coordinator, UN Humanitarian Coordinator and UN Development Programme (UNDP)
Resident Representative.
His previous assignments in the UN included posts at headquarters in New York,
at the UN complex in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as in Thiland, China, Kenya,
Niger, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Benin.
The United Nations presently has 15,000 troops and over 1,000 police in an
international peace keeping force, the largest in the world, where presidential
and legislative elections will be held on October 11, 2005.

   

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