PRISTINA, Aug 10 (Hina) - The new administrator of the U.N. Mission toKosovo (UNMIK), Danish diplomat Soeren Jessen Petersen, will step intooffice on August 16, two months after his appointment, the Missionsaid on Tuesday.
PRISTINA, Aug 10 (Hina) - The new administrator of the U.N. Mission
to Kosovo (UNMIK), Danish diplomat Soeren Jessen Petersen, will step into
office on August 16, two months after his appointment, the Mission said on
Tuesday.
Next week, Petersen will meet the leaders of Kosovo and international
bodies to discuss the situation in the province and the possibilities of
accelerating progress, UNMIK spokesman Jeff Bieley said.
Petersen, the fifth United Nations administrator in Kosovo since 1999,
replaces Finland's Harri Holkeri, who resigned due to health reasons.
A lawyer and journalist, Petersen held the office of deputy U.N. high
commissioner for refugees from January 1998 to December 2001. Since February
this year he was the European Union's special representative in Macedonia. He
is the second Danish and third Scandinavian diplomat to assume the highest
international office in Kosovo.