The new United Nations coordinator for humanitarian aid to sanctions-hit Iraq, Ramiro Armando de Oliveira Lopes da Silva of Portugal, arrived Friday in Baghdad, UN sources in the Iraqi capital said.
Lopes da Silva, aged 53, who headed the transport division of the World Food Program (WFP), was appointed aid coordinator to Iraq on May 31 to replace Tun Myat from Myanmar.
Tun Myat, who himself worked for the WFP for 22 years before being appointed to Iraq in April 2000, was named on May 10 to a new post in charge of the security of UN personnel worldwide.
Lopes da Silva has worked for the United Nations since 1985, including as humanitarian coordinator in Angola from 1996 to 1998 and WFP's special envoy for the recent crisis in Afghanistan, AFP said. (Albawaba.com)
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