Sissel Ekaas of Norway named deputy of
UNMEE
17 November 2004 – A senior
official of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been named as Secretary-General Kofi
Annan's Deputy Special Representative for the UN Mission in Ethiopia and
Eritrea (UNMEE).
Immediately prior to this appointment, Sissel Ekaas of Norway served as the
Director of the Gender and Population Division in FAO's Sustainable Development Department.
She is expected to take up her duties in Asmara, Eritrea, by the end of this
month.
UNMEE
has been in the region since July 2000 to liaise with Ethiopia and Eritrea and
to establish a mechanism to verify the ceasefire put in place after the two
countries fought a border war in the late 1990s. UNNEWS
Unlimited, high
