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    Top US Official at the UN to Leave Post

    by  • December 4, 2011 • GOINGS-ON, Libya, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations • 4 Comments

    B. Lynn Pascoe, an American and the under secretary-general for political affairs, is leaving at the end of the year.

    B. Lynn Pascoe, an American diplomat who has served as under secretary-general for political affairs during Ban Ki-moon’s first term, is leaving that key position early in the new year, as the secretary-general reshapes his senior team for his second five-year term beginning on Jan.1. The first announcement of pending changes at the top of [...]

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    A Man for the Moment in the Middle East

    by  • November 15, 2011 • Libya, Middle East • 2 Comments

    Nabil Elaraby, left, secretary-general of the Arab League, with UN Secretary-General Ban ki-moon at a Paris conference in support of the new Libyan government last spring.

    Nabil Elaraby is a name to remember as crisis builds in Syria and citizens in other countries in the Arab world worry about where their hard-won revolutions are taking them. Elaraby, a 76-year-old Egyptian diplomat, is secretary-general of the Arab League, a position he has held for less than five months. But his impact on [...]

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