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Ban appoints two new UN refugee officials
New York, Feb 13 (IBNS) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed two officials at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – George Okoth-Obbo as Assistant High Commissioner for Operations and Volker Türk as Assistant High Commissioner for Protection-the UN announced today.
Okoth-Obbo of Uganda will succeed Singapore’s Janet Lim while Türk of Austria replaces Erika Feller of Australia.
Both Okoth-Obbo and Türk boast impressive careers within UNHCR with the former having previously served as the agency’s Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa and the latter as Director of UNHCR’s Division of International Protection.
Photo: UNHCR/S. Modola
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