United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Leonid Frolov of the Russian Federation as Executive Director of the Office of the United Nations Register of Damage caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (UNRoD) in compliance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution A/RES/ES-10/17 (2007).  The Vienna-based office is a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly operating under the administrative authority of the Secretary-General. 

He succeeds Vladimir Goryayev of the Russian Federation who retired in 2020.  The Secretary-General is grateful for Mr. Goryayev’s leadership of UNRoD and his dedicated service to the United Nations for more than three decades. 

Mr. Frolov has served since 2017 as Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the State of Israel.  He served in the Foreign Service of the Russian Federation since 1994 and has held multiple positions in the Middle East and Northern Africa Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow with postings to the State of Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Libya.  From 2008 to 2011, he served as First Secretary/Counsellor in the Russian Representative Office at the Palestinian National Authority in Ramallah. 

In his new capacity, Mr. Frolov will head the UNRoD secretariat and will be responsible for overseeing and administrating the work of the office of the United Nations Register of Damage.  As an ex-officio member of the Board of the Register of Damage, he will also be responsible for reviewing all the claim cases and presenting them to the Board for its approval for inclusion in the Register.