UN rep to head UNICEF board
Published:Monday | May 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC):
Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has announced that the country's UN Ambassador, Dr John W. Ashe, has received endorsement to serve as president of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF).
The one-year term will begin on January 1, 2012.
Ambassador Ashe got the endorsement from the UN Group of Latin American and Caribbean States.
"This is no small achievement for our twin-island nation and I would like to thank the 32 countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region for the singular honour they have bestowed on the government and people of Antigua and Barbuda," Prime Minister Spencer said on Saturday.
The executive board is the governing body of UNICEF, providing intergovernmental support and oversight to the organisation, in accordance with the overall policy guidance of the United Nations General Assembly and its Economic and Social Council, and reviews UNICEF activities and approves its policies, country programmes and budgets.