A western source for the (morning): Security Council discusses the report of the Taranco soon (see below)
Contains preliminary information provided by Iraq says foreign intervention in the country
بغداد - خاص بالصباح BAGHDAD - particularly by the morning
A Western diplomatic source said that the UN Security Council will soon discuss a special report in the pipeline by the UN investigator on Baghdad's bloody bombings.
Coincides this information a day after Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the UN envoy delivered a fact-finding on the deadly bombings in Baghdad of information and evidence.
According to the diplomatic source "morning", the report of UN envoy Taranco Oscar Fernandez will address the results of his visit to Baghdad recently, evidence and documents presented by Iraq.
It is said that officials in Baghdad have provided the UN special envoy Taranco Oscar Fernandes during his visit to Baghdad earlier this month, evidence and documents proving the involvement of hard Baathists and terrorists, and third-party funding and planning of terrorist acts that took place in the country recently, particularly for Wednesday and Sunday Aldamyin.
The source, who asked not to be named, said "The report, which consists of more than five pages will include preliminary information about the size of foreign interventions and the perceptions that Taranco reached during talks in Baghdad." The former national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie MP had confirmed the " morning, "said last week that Iraq has submitted a new application for the international investigator to move and visit neighboring countries, urging them to control their borders and to take adequate security measures in this area after the disclosure of thousands of documents which prove the existence of regional interference in the internal affairs and support terrorism, politics and the media and financially and logistically.
The Minister Zebari told a news conference in Baghdad yesterday:
The government committee includes representatives from the ministries of interior, defense and national security, intelligence and the Supreme Judicial international envoy handed over information on the attacks was not announced because of the sensitivity and accuracy of the subject and investigations.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs: "Iraq does not want to accuse any country and does not want to politicize the issue of suicide as much as he wants to establish the facts," stressing there was "a close link between the Baath Party and al-Qaeda in the attacks and what we have asserted that the UN envoy."
The Government of the Secretary UN chief Ban Ki-moon, the end of last August, a request for an international tribunal to try those behind the bombings after the side's refusal to hand over the Syrian Baathists involved residents in Damascus, while the lifting of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, during his participation in the meetings of the Assembly, a request to send a UN envoy a special fact-finding.
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March 2009
SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS OSCAR FERNANDEZ-TARANCO OF ARGENTINA
AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Oscar Fernandez-Taranco of Argentina as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs.
In this position within the Department of Political Affairs, Mr. Fernandez-Taranco will be responsible, inter alia, for overseeing the Department’s divisions dealing with the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East and West Asia, as well as the Decolonization Unit and the Division for Palestinian Rights.
Mr. Fernandez-Taranco brings a wealth of experience to this position, having worked in the United Nations system for over 25 years, both at Headquarters and in the field, managing increasingly complex development, political, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations in the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Europe.
From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Fernandez-Taranco served as Deputy Special Representative of the Administrator in the West Bank and Gaza Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People. He was also the Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Regional Director in the Regional Bureau for Arab States in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for five years.
From 1998 to 2001, he served as Resident Representative, United Nations Resident Coordinator and Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Haiti. Immediately prior to this appointment, Mr. Fernandez-Taranco had been serving as Resident Coordinator in the United Republic of Tanzania, leading the United Nations reform initiative of “Delivering as One”.
He had earlier served as a Country Officer in the United Nations Capital Development Fund and as Country Officer in the Latin American and Caribbean Division of the World Food Programme. He started his career in the United Nations as a United Nations Volunteer in Benin, after a stint with Oxfam America.
Mr. Fernandez-Taranco was educated at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied first economics and then urban-regional economic planning. Born in 1957, he is married and has two children.
