Ban Ki-moon appointed United Nations Deputy Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
UNITED NATIONS, July 9 (Xinhua Bai Jie Wang Xiangjiang) 9, UN Secretary-General Huck said the spokesman, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of the day, Baroness Valerie Amos, Britain succeeded with the John Holmes of British nationality, as the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.
Amos is currently the British High Commissioner in Australia, had previously served as Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom, parliament's upper house leader and President of the Council and other key positions. She has extensive involvement in the Congo (DRC), Sudan, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Liberia and other countries in post-conflict situation in the consultations and negotiations, in promoting consensus and coordination of international efforts has extensive political experience.
of Amos was born in Guyana in 1954, his family moved to Britain in 1964, and assistance for the promotion of racial equality in South Africa for its achievements in 1997 when the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been labeled a life peer, as the British House of Lords the first black woman.
