* 19-Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations Special Representative to Iraq.

The head of UNMIK is the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (' SRSG ') and is appointed by the Secretary-General under the advice of UN member states.

*** Special Representative of the Secretary-General ( SRSG )

Bildt has also been noted internationally as a mediator in the Balkan conflict, serving as the European Union's Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, co-chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995 and as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

Bildt and Richard Holbrooke before peace talks in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 1995. After his term as Prime Minister, Bildt was active as a mediator in the Balkans conflict, serving as the European Union Special Envoy to Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, Co-Chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995, and High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

Former UN Commissioner N ° 2 and now UN Special Representative Martti Ahtisaari arrived in Windhoek in April 1989 to head the UN Transition Assistance Group's ( UNTAG ) mission.

In June 1989, the Special Representative told the Administrator-General that this behavior was totally inconsistent with the settlement proposal, which required the police to be lightly armed.

The elections were held in November 1989 and were certified as free and fair by the UN Special Representative, with SWAPO taking 57 % of the vote, just short of the two-thirds necessary to have a free hand in revising the framework constitution that had been formulated not by UN Commissioner Bernt Carlsson but by the South African appointee Louis Pienaar.

Active diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute under the auspices of the Special Representative of the Secretary General are on-going.

U. N. Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy stated in January 2010 that " large numbers " of teenage boys are being recruited in tribal Yemeni fighting.

It was led by Brazil's Sergio Vieira de Mello ( Special Representative of the Secretary-General for East Timor ) and the Philippines's Lieutenant General Jaime de los Santos ( Supreme Commander of the United Nations ' Peacekeeping Force ( PKF )).

The first is the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, the official leader of the mission.

Recent bilateral activities between the United States and North Korea have included an April 2011 visit by former President Jimmy Carter, a July 2011 meeting between U. S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Stephen Bosworth and North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan, and a February 2012 bilateral meeting in Beijing that resulted in an agreement to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for U. S. food aid ( which has now been cancelled due to North Korea's April 2012 long-range missile test ).

* Milan D. Bish, Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, and St. Vincent, as well as Special Representative to St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1981 to 1984.

As well as carrying out various royal duties, he served as the United Kingdom's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment until July 2011.

The Duke of York in his role as the UK's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, 2008.

From 2001 until July 2011, the Duke of York worked with UK Trade & Investment, part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, as the United Kingdom's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment.

As the United Kingdom's Special Trade Representative, The Duke of York travelled the world to promote British businesses.

* Peter Leuprecht, Director of the " Institut d ' études internationales de Montréal ", United Nations Special Representative on Human Rights in Cambodia, Director of Human Rights ( Council of Europe ) 1980-1993,

Attempts by the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative, Vittorio Winspeare-Guicciardi to visit Fretilin-held areas from Darwin, Australia, were obstructed by the Indonesian military, which blockaded East Timor.

Following the death of a later UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, on Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 – on the eve of the signing of the Tripartite Accord at UN headquarters – Ahtisaari was sent to Namibia in April 1989 as the UN Special Representative to head the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ( UNTAG ).

The High Representative also coordinates the work of the European Union Special Representatives.

The peace conference was led by U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and negotiator Richard Holbrooke with two Co-Chairmen in the form of EU Special Representative Carl Bildt and the First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Igor Ivanov.

The EUPM acted under co-ordination of the European Union Special Representative, who also serves as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A report by Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, notes that " millions of farmers are losing their livelihoods in the developing countries, but small farmers in the northern countries are also suffering " and concludes that " the current inequities of the global trading system are being perpetuated rather than resolved under the WTO, given the unequal balance of power between member countries.

Little, Brown, 2003: how Dirie became a UN Special Ambassador for FGM.

* 1946-The United Kingdom inscribed Gibraltar in the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories kept by the UN Special Committee on Decolonization.

In May 2007, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named Brundtland, as well as Ricardo Lagos ( the former president of Chile ), and Han Seung-soo ( the former foreign minister of South Korea ), to serve as UN Special Envoys for Climate Change.

*-34 vehicles ( 12 M-1151A1 deployed in Haiti as part of the UN peacekeeping contingent, 22 M-1165A1 Special Ops operated by the 19th Commando Battalion ).

* Special Advisor to the UN Global Compact for Business and Development.

They include Arundhati Roy who says " Each of us needs a little RAWA "; Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, who suggests that RAWA must stand as a model for every group working to end violence ; Katha Pollitt, author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture ; Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban and Jihad ; and Asma Jahangir, Special Rapporteur of the UN and prominent women's rights activist of Pakistan are two Pakistanis who write about RAWA and express their support.

Subsequently, the Sierra Leonean Government and the UN agreed to set up the Special Court for Sierra Leone to try those who " bear the greatest responsibility for the commission of crimes against humanity, war crimes and serious violations of international humanitarian law, as well as crimes under relevant Sierra Leonean law within the territory of Sierra Leone since 30 November 1996.

Special sessions may be convened at the request of the United Nations Security Council, or a majority of UN members, or, if the majority concurs, of a single member.

At the first Special Session of the UN General Assembly held in 1947, Osvaldo Aranha, then president of the Special Session, began a tradition that has remained until today whereby the first speaker at this major international forum is always a Brazilian.

UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland, leads the status process with Austrian diplomat Albert Rohan, his deputy.

Ahtisaari's office — the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo ( UNOSEK ) — is located in Vienna and includes liaison staff from NATO, the European Union and the United States.

Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon entered into consultations with the UN Special representative over the implementation of 242.

In 1947, the United Nations created the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP ) to find an immediate solution to the Palestine question, which the British had handed over to the UN.

Despite the fact that the allegations were backed by successive UN Special Rapporteurs and a Canadian Government investigation, Bildt succeeded in winning the public controversy in Sweden, allowing Lundin Oil to pursue its activities in Sudan.

* Office of the UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa

November 29-With a two-thirds majority vote, the UN General Assembly adopts a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of a plan to partition the British Mandate of Palestine into " Independent Arab and Jewish States " and a " Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem " administered by the United Nations.