U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
on Monday appointed a Norwegian diplomat who dealt with the Colombian peace
process to try to settle the longstanding border dispute between Venezuela and
Guyana by the end of the year. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced the
appointment of Dag Halvor Nylander as Guterres’ personal representative “with a
strengthened mandate of mediation.” Dujarric said on Dec. 16 that
then-Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Guterres, who succeeded him on Jan. 1,
had agreed that the U.N. chief’s use of his “good offices” to resolve the
dispute, which started in 1990, would continue for a final year until the end
of 2017. More…
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