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Special and Personal Representatives and
Envoys of the Secretary-General

Asia and the Pacific

Country/Region	Title	Name (Country)	UN Mission	Date of Appointment
Afghanistan	Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of UNAMA	Ján Kubiš (Slovakia)	United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)	1 January 2012 [S/2011/734] [S/2011/733]
	Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction; UN Resident Coordinator and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan	Michael Keating (United Kingdom)	United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)	5 July 2011
	Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Political Affairs	Nicholas Haysom (South Africa)	United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)	8 March 2012
Central Asia	Special Representative and Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia	Miroslav Jenča (Slovakia)	UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia in (UNRCCA) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	1 May 2008 [S/2008/286] [S/2008/285]
India-Pakistan	Chief Military Observer and Head of Mission of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)	Major General Raul Gloodtdofsky Fernandez (Uruguay)	UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)	23 December 2010 [S/2010/663] [S/2010/662]
Myanmar	Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for Myanmar	Vijay Nambiar (India)
Pakistan	Special Envoy for Assistance to Pakistan	Rauf Engin Soysal (Turkey)		27 September 2010
Timor-Leste	Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-Leste and Head of Mission of UNMIT	Ameerah Haq (Bangladesh)	United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT)	2 December 2009
	Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Governance Support, Development and Humanitarian Coordination	Finn Reske-Nielsen (Denmark)	United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT)	7 September 2006
	Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Security Sector Support and Rule of Law	Shigeru Mochida (Japan)	United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT)	9 July 2010