{"id":198036,"date":"2005-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=198036"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:31:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:31:29","slug":"auto-insert-198036","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-198036\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvaro de Soto of Peru named new UN envoy to Middle East – UN news item"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alvaro de Soto of Peru named new UN envoy to Middle East<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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6 May 2005 <\/i><\/span>– <\/i><\/span>Veteran Â鶹APP negotiator Alvaro de Soto will begin work immediately as the top UN envoy in the Middle East after Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed the Peruvian national to the post. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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On Monday, Mr. de Soto will accompany Mr. Annan to a working meeting of the Middle East Quartet – which comprises the UN, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States – in Moscow. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Mr. de Soto succeeds Terje Roed-Larsen as UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the Secretary-General's Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority. He will also act as Mr. Annan's envoy to the Quartet. <\/p><\/div>\n

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In a statement announcing the appointment, Mr. Annan noted that Mr. de Soto assumes the post at a time of renewed momentum for peace in the region and will therefore “play an essential role” in trying to help the parties sustain that pace. <\/p><\/div>\n

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He also thanked Mr. Roed-Larsen, who served from October 1999 to December 2004, for the “excellent job” he had done. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Mr. de Soto, 62, has spent 23 years working for the UN, most recently in senior peacemaking positions. From October 2003 until this month he served as the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Western Sahara, and he was the Special Adviser on Cyprus from late 1999 until mid-2004. Both positions were at the level of Under-Secretary-General. <\/p><\/div>\n

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His previous roles have included Special Envoy for Myanmar, Personal Representative for the Central American peace process, and Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, responsible for the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Mr. de Soto was also a Senior Political Adviser to Boutros Boutros-Ghali while he was Secretary-General.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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