According to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, German diplomat Marcus Pochel will succeed Mete Knunsen, the Danish diplomat who completed her term last month.
Marcus Pochel, a German career diplomat, will take over as the new UNAMA Deputy Director for the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan.
She will succeed Mete Knunsen, the Danish diplomat who completed her term in office last month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced.
Mr. Pochel, born in 1965, has 30 years of experience in the German diplomatic corps and was recently named his country’s ambassador to Kabul.
At least temporarily, Marcus Pochelle will run UNAMA, as its leader, Canadian diplomat Deborah Lyons, recently resigned from this position, which she held since 2020. It is not yet known who or who will succeed her.
UNAMA, which has been responsible for coordinating political issues and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan for almost two decades, is also responsible for monitoring the human rights situation.
Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the UN has sought to secure the cooperation of Sunni fundamentalists.
Their regime, however, restricts freedoms and recently moves on to a series of movements that marginalize women and girls from public life.
The state of Southeast Asia is facing a threatening humanitarian catastrophe. Millions of people are completely dependent on humanitarian aid.
