Special Envoy of the Secretary-General

A Special Envoy of the Secretary-General (SESG) is a senior United Nations official appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General to deal with a set of specific issues.

Examples include the SESGs on HIV/AIDS in Africa, on LRA-affected areas, on indigenous people, to a specific country etc. George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, was chosen by the UN to serve as the Special Envoy to South Asia in December 2005. Others include Bill Clinton,[1] a former president of the United States, was named the Special Envoy to Haiti in 2009, and, in July 2012, Gordon Brown, a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was named the special envoy on Global Education.[2] For much of 2012 Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, was Joint Special Envoy for the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria. There are many other people of different backgrounds who serve the Secretary-General.

Current Special Envoys

Special Envoys of the Secretary-General (SESGs) active as of June 2022 include:

Personal Envoys

Personal Envoys of the Secretary-General active as of June 2022 include:

  • Staffan de Mistura (ITA), appointed Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara on 6 October 2021. De Mistura is tasked with "provid[ing] good offices on behalf of the Secretary-General… [and] work[ing] with all relevant interlocutors, including the parties, neighbouring countries and other stakeholders, guided by Security Council resolution 2548 (2020) and other relevant resolutions."[5]
  • Mirko Manzoni (CHE), appointed Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Mozambique on 8 July 2019. Manzoni is tasked with "provid[ing] good offices support in facilitating the dialogue between the Government of Mozambique and RENAMO and towards the signing and subsequent implementation of a peace agreement between the parties."[6]

Former Special Envoys

The UN has appointed a number of Special Envoys.

See also

References
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  2. "Home". The Office of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education.
  3. https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/profiles/amandeep-gill access-date 10 August 2023
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  6. "Mirko Manzoni, Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Mozambique". United Nations. 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
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  9. "Ms. María Soledad Cisternas Reyes of Chile - Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility". United Nations Secretary-General. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  10. "Shri Virendra Dayal - IHF profile". Indian Harmony Foundation. 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
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  13. "Secretary-General Appoints Han Seung-Soo of Republic of Korea Special Envoy on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water" (Press release). United Nations. 19 December 2013.
  14. "Secretary-General Appoints Mary Robinson of Ireland, Macharia Kamau of Kenya Special Envoys on El Niño and Climate" (Press release). United Nations. 20 May 2016.
  15. "General George C. Marshall's Mission to China, 1945-1947". www.gale.com. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
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