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Ameerah Haq and Zéphirin Diabré, UNDP Associate Administrator (center) welcoming back BCPR colleague Mohammed Younus (left) who had been injured in the UN bombing in Baghdad (18 th August 2003)
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Ms. Ameerah Haq has been appointed as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan, where she will be second in command at the United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA), with responsibility for Recovery and Reconstruction. Ms. Haq who assumed her appointment on 9 June, will also be UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator, as well as Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme. This appointment is at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.
Prior to this appointment, Ms. Haq served as Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director at UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR). Ms. Ameerah Haq was Associate Director of the UN Development Group Office (DGO), UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Malaysia 1994-1997 and in Laos 1991-1994. The current appointment takes Ms. Ameerah Haq who started her career in 1976 as a Junior Professional Officer based in Jakarta, Indonesia back to the beginnings: her second post with UNDP was in Afghanistan - as Assistant Resident Representative in 1978. |
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