United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Roza Otunbayeva, the ex-president of Kyrgyzstan, as his new Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. Press service of the organization reports.
Otunbayeva succeeds Deborah Lyons of Canada.
Roza Otunbayeva was born on August 23, 1950. She graduated from the school in Osh with honors, the Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow State University. She held party and state positions in the Kirghiz SSR, worked at the USSR Foreign Ministry. After the collapse of the USSR, she returned to Kyrgyzstan and worked in high positions, headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the republic, worked at the UN, and participated in the opposition movement. After the April Revolution, she headed the provisional Government. The referendum approved her as president during the transitional period. She voluntarily resigned after the election of a new head of state on December 1, 2011.
