United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has named former Kyrgyzstan president Roza Otunbayeva as the UN\u2019s new special representative for Afghanistan, his office said.
\nAccording to international media, Otunbayeva became interim president of Kyrgyzstan in April 2010 after a bloody uprising forced then-leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev into exile. She relinquished power the following year after new elections were organised.
\nA former parliamentarian and government minister, she was also a deputy special representative of the former UN mission to Georgia. She is currently a member of a high-level UN council dealing with the mediation and prevention of conflicts.
\nShe is replacing another woman, Canadian Deborah Lyons, as head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, where the rights of women and girls have been drastically curtailed since the Taliban\u2019s return to power last year.
\nSeparately, Guterres appointed Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily as the UN\u2019s envoy to Libya following a recent outbreak of fighting between rival governments.
\nThe former Senegalese minister was previously the UN\u2019s representative in Central Africa, special adviser to the secretary-general for Madagascar and deputy special representative for the UN mission in Mali.
\nThe UN\u2019s efforts to hold peace talks and pave the way for elections has come under renewed pressure after violence shook Tripoli in late July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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