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Geneva, 1 November 2001
Mrs Danuta Hübner
leaves the UN
On 31 October 2001,
Mrs Danuta Hübner, Under-Secretary General
of the United Nations, Executive Secretary
of the United Nations Economic Commission
for Europe (UNECE), left the Organization
to become member of the Polish Government.
Mrs Hübner joined the
UNECE in November 1998 as Deputy Executive
Secretary, and was appointed as Executive
Secretary in June 2000.
In the Polish Government
Mrs Hübner will be First Deputy Minister
of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of
State in charge of European integration.
The Secretary-General
of the United Nations, Mr Kofi Annan,
has asked Mr Paolo Garonna, Deputy
Executive Secretary of the UNECE, to
be Officer-in-Charge pending the appointment
of a new Executive Secretary.
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Ref: ECE/GEN/01/24