Secretary-General Appoints Under-Secretary-General Tegegnework Gettu Coordinator for Multilingualism

SG/A/1581

30 June 2015

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Tegegnework Gettu of Ethiopia, Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management, as the new Coordinator for Multilingualism, in implementation of General Assembly resolution 69/250. In this role, Mr. Gettu is responsible for coordinating the overall implementation of multilingualism Secretariat-wide.

This appointment is made pursuant the General Assembly resolutions 54/64 of 1999 and 61/266 of 2007 on the appointment of a senior official as coordinator of questions relating to multilingualism.

Previously, this function was performed by Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, former Under-Secretary-General for Public Information, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his dedicated service in this area.

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