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Veteran UN officials appointed to senior positions in Cyprus and in charge of field support

India Blooms News Service | | Mar 31, 2016, at 01:55 pm

#Cyprus #UN

New York, Mar 31 (Just Earth News/IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday appointed two women with extensive experience in the United Nations to senior positions in the Organization.

The former head of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus, Lisa M. Buttenheim, has been named deputy of the Department of Field Support, which provides support to UN peacekeeping and political field missions.

Buttenheim, a citizen of the United States, will now be the Department's Assistant Secretary-General working with Under-Secretary-General Atul Khare.

In a statement, the Secretary-General noted Buttenheim's “extensive experience with the United Nations in political affairs and peacekeeping, both at Headquarters and in field operations.”

With more than thirty years of UN experience, Buttenheim had been the Director of the Department of Political Affair's Middle East and West Asia Division and its Asia and Pacific Division. She has also worked with UN peacekeeping, as Director of the Asia and Middle East Division and as head of the UN Office in Belgrade.

She had most recently served as the Secretary-General's Special Representative in Cyprus, the head of UNFICYP and Deputy to the Special Adviser on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide.

Those roles will be taken up this summer by Elizabeth Spehar.

With nearly a decade of experience in the UN Department of Political Affairs, Spehar currently heads the Department's Policy and Mediation Division. She previously served as Director for the Americas and Europe Division and Director of the Europe Division, “engaging extensively on key political issues facing the region,” according to a separate statement by Ban.

A native of Canada, Spehar was a senior official with the Organization of American States prior to joining the United Nations.

UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras

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