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Special and Personal Representatives and
Envoys of the Secretary-General

Europe

Country/Region	Title	Name (Country)	UN Mission	Date of Appointment
Cyprus	Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission	Lisa Buttenheim (United States)	United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)	2 June 2010 [S/2010/261] [S/2010/260]
	Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus	Alexander Downer (Australia)		17 July 2008
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia-Greece	Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Greece-FYROM talks	Matthew Nimetz (United States)		21 December 1999 [S/1999/1286] [S/1999/1287]
Georgia	United Nations representative to the Joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism and the international discussions in Geneva on security and stability and the return of internally displaced persons and refugees	Antti Turunen (Finland)		2 March 2010 [S/2011/279] [S/2010/103]
Kosovo	Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission	Farid Zarif (Afghanistan)	United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)	11 October 2011 [S/2011/632] [S/2011/631]