{"id":139729,"date":"2016-03-31T09:36:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T06:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/un-secretary-general-appoints-new-special-representative-for-cyprus\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T09:36:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T06:36:49","slug":"un-secretary-general-appoints-new-special-representative-for-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/un-secretary-general-appoints-new-special-representative-for-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary-General appoints new Special Representative for Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Wednesday the appointment of Elizabeth Spehar of Canada as his new Special Representative and head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spehar will also perform the function of Deputy to the Secretary-General\u2019s Special Adviser on Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will succeed Lisa Buttenheim, who will take up the position of Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support at Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Secretary-General is grateful for Ms. Buttenheim\u2019s dedication and exemplary leadership of UNFICYP over the past six years.\u00a0 Ms. Buttenheim also provided invaluable support to the Secretary-General\u2019s mission of good offices, as the Deputy to his Special Adviser on Cyprus.\u00a0 During her tenure, significant progress has been achieved in the negotiations towards a comprehensive settlement&#8221; St\u00e9phane Dujarric, the Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General told the press on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Spehar &#8220;has had extensive political experience in several senior positions with the United Nations Department of Political Affairs since 2007&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spehar is expected to take up her new appointment before summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Replying to a question Dujarric noted that &#8220;the efforts of the SG through his Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide, the talks between the two sides, continue well&#8221; and added that &#8220;this is where we focus&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Wednesday the appointment of Elizabeth Spehar of Canada as<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}