AUSTRIAN DIPLOMAT APPOINTED TO SENIOR UN ECONOMIC AFFAIRS POST

AUSTRIAN DIPLOMAT APPOINTED TO SENIOR UN ECONOMIC AFFAIRS POST New York, Feb 8 2008 5:00PM An Austrian diplomat has been appointed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to a senior post in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), it was announced today.

Thomas Stelzer, 53, will replace Patrizio Civili as the new Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs.

Since 2001, Mr. Stelzer has been his country's Permanent Representative in Vienna to the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (<"http://www.iaea.org/">IAEA), UN Industrial Development Organization (<"http://www.unido.org/">UNIDO) and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty Organization.

During his career, he has held other international and diplomatic posts, including Minister-Counsellor at Austria's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York as well as President of UNIDO's Industrial Development Board.
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