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Morocco, Mauritania pledge to deepen bilateral ties
Xinhua
25 May 2021, 04:44 GMT+10
RABAT, May 24 (Xinhua) Morocco s Prime Minister Saad Dine El Otmani received on Monday in Rabat Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, with both sides pledging to foster cooperation and promote bilateral ties. Morocco will work with Mauritania to promote cooperation in such fields as education, economy, trade and investment, El Otmani told reporters after the talks, according to official news agency MAP. For his part, Ahmed expressed the hope that the High Joint Commission, chaired by the heads of government of both countries, will be held soon to push forward important cooperation projects.
UN Yemen envoy named humanitarian chief
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UNITED NATIONS, United States, May 13, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Martin Griffiths, the UN envoy struggling to end the bloody war in Yemen, was named Wednesday to be the global body’s humanitarian chief.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ appointment of Griffiths as under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs keeps the prominent post in the hands of a British diplomat, succeeding Mark Lowcock.
Similarly, two other top positions, under-secretary-general for political affairs and under-secretary-general for peacekeeping, have stayed respectively with diplomats from the United States and France despite a 1992 General Assembly resolution that opposed the “monopoly” of the major powers in key jobs.
Thursday, 13 May, 2021 - 07:30
Martin Griffiths, seen speaking in Berlin in April 2021, has been named the UN humanitarian chief - AFP Asharq Al-Awsat
Martin Griffiths, the UN envoy struggling to end the bloody war in Yemen, was named Wednesday to be the global body s humanitarian chief.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointment of Griffiths as under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs keeps the prominent post in the hands of a British diplomat, succeeding Mark Lowcock, according to AFP.
Similarly, two other top positions, under-secretary-general for political affairs and under-secretary-general for peacekeeping, have stayed respectively with diplomats from the United States and France despite a 1992 General Assembly resolution that opposed the monopoly of the major powers in key jobs.
Martin Griffiths, the UN envoy struggling to end the bloody war in Yemen, was named Wednesday to be the global body's humanitarian chief. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' appointment of Griffiths as under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs keeps the prominent post in the hands of a British diplomat, succeeding Mark Lowcock. Similarly, two other top positions, under-secretary-general for political affairs and under-secretary-general.