Vijay Nambiar
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 19, 2021
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For more than a decade, from 2004 to 2017, Vijay Nambiar was a special adviser to United Nations secretaries-general Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, charged with following events in Burma, which the military generals renamed Myanmar in 1989. A…
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 19, 2014
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The surprising move in 2010 by a repressive Burmese military regime to begin ceding power to the nation’s people was just the beginning of a tangled story. The new democracy held its first credible election less than two years…
- Categories: Asia, Development, Myanmar
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 4, 2012
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has chosen Jan Eliasson, a former Swedish foreign minister with years of experience as a key United Nations mediator and humanitarian relief director, to be his new deputy secretary-general. Eliasson, 71, was twice ambassador to the…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 4, 2011
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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…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, Libya, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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