TIL Desk/World/United Nations-UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has extended for a year the mandate of top peacekeeping official and senior Indian diplomat Atul Khare. The mandate for Khare, the Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, will be extended till April 1, 2018.
The mandates of senior officials working in the peace and security pillar Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant-Secretary-General for Peace building Support Oscar Fernandez-Taranco have also been extended.
Guterres also announced yesterday the establishment of an internal review team that will take forward the reforms to the UN Secretariat peace and security strategy, functioning and architecture, which he had outlined when he was appointed the Secretary-General last year. The team will be led by Tamrat Samuel, an Eritrean national who held numerous senior UN appointments.
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