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Annan Appoints Deputy Chief of Mission in Cote d'Ivoire the New Mission Chief
in Liberia

UN News Service (New York)
NEWS
July 15, 2005
Posted to the web July 16, 2005

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has notified the Security Council of his intention
to appoint the principal deputy chief of the United Nations peacekeeping
mission in Côte d'Ivoire as the new chief of the mission in Liberia, a UN
spokeswoman said today.
Alan Doss, a citizen of the United Kingdom, would replace retired United States
Air Force Major-General Jacques Paul Klein as the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General (SRSG) and head of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). Mr.
Klein's contract expired in April.
Mr. Doss has had a long and distinguished career with the UN, having served as
Principal Deputy SRSG in Côte d'Ivoire since June of last year. Before that, he
was Deputy SRSG 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 Thailand, China, Kenya,
Niger, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Benin.

   

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