Bulletin Vol. 64 no. 2 - AAFI-AFICS, Geneva - UNOG

AN APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEER TRANSLATORS
English-French – French-English
We often need – sometimes at short notice – extra help in translating articles for the Bulletin or other
texts (reports, notes, etc) from English to French and French to English.
Are there any members of AAFI-AFICS with writing skills and excellent knowledge of both languages
that would accept, from time to time, to assist in promoting the communication that is essential for the
Association? Computer – email – literacy is a necessity.
Our grateful thanks to all the volunteers (reply to : aafi-afics@unog.ch)
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UNITED NATIONS
NEWS FROM THE ORGANIZATIONS
The Secretary-General has appointed the Head of the UN Development Programme, Mr. Mark
Malloch Brown as his Chief of Staff as from 19 January 2005. He replaces Iqbal Riza who has retired.
Mr. Malloch Brown will assist the Secretary-General and the Deputy Secretary-General Louise
Fréchette in leading a major initiative to improve the performance and conduct an overhaul of the
management of the organization.
Mr. Malloch Brown is of British nationality. He is 51 years old and is known to be an outspoken person.
A former journalist at the English weekly “The Economist”, he has served as the Administrator of the
UN Development Programme since 1999. He has mentioned that an organization like the UN must
adapt itself to providing daily information about its activities and its announcements must be “rapid and
vigorous”. (UN News Centre, Le Monde).
Two senior posts in the UN’s higher management are also becoming vacant with the imminent
departures of Catherine Bertini, Under-Secretary-General for Administration and Management, and
Jean-Pierre Halbwachs, Controller of the United Nations. The filling of these posts is of a certain
importance to the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund. The Under-Secretary-General is responsible for the
Fund’s investments and the Controller is a senior representative of the Secretary-General of the UN
on the Pension Board.
Mr. Rubens Ricupero retired on 14 September 2004, after having served as Secretary-General of
UNCTAD for nine years.
Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram of Malaysia has been appointed Assistant Secretary-General on
Economic Development. (WFUNA Newsletters).
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Mr. Edouard Dayan, a veteran French postal official, took over from the UPU’s outgoing Director-
General Thomas E. Leavey, of the United States, at a ceremony at the 190-member UPU
Headquarters in Berne on 18 January 2005. Mr. Dayan declared his vision of an efficient, innovative,
united and open organization, ready to use the tools of the new age (UN News Centre).
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