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Carolyn McAskie of Canada named
to top-level peacebuilding support post
16 May 2006 (UN News) – Secretary-General Kofi
Annan today named Carolyn McAskie of Canada as United Nations Assistant
Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, a post closely aligned
with the newly created Peacebuilding Commission which will aim to
help post-conflict countries avoid sliding back into war.
Ms. McAskie served most recently as the senior UN envoy to Burundi
and head of the UN peacekeeping operation there. She served as a
member of the Facilitation Team of the Burundi Peace Process in
Arusha in 1999 under the late Julius Nyerere, the former President
of Tanzania, and as Humanitarian Envoy of the UN Secretary General
for the humanitarian crisis in Cote d'Ivoire in 2003. From 1999
to 2004, she was the UN’s Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator,
serving on a temporary basis as Emergency Relief Coordinator from
1999 to January 2001.
Prior to joining the UN, Ms. McAskie had a 30-year career with the
Federal Government of Canada in the Canadian International Development
Agency (CIDA), holding senior positions with responsibility for
Africa and the Middle East, among a number of other appointments.
Early in her career, she served in the Commonwealth Secretariat
in London as Assistant Director of Finance and Personnel from 1975
to 1980 and as Canadian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
from 1986 to 1989.Throughout her career, Carolyn McAskie has played
a prominent role in multilateral negotiations as a Canadian delegate
to the UN Funds and Programmes and in the Governing Councils of
international financial institutions.
From: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=18509&Cr=peace&Cr1=
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