Bill Clinton named UN special envoy for tsunami relief<\/p>\n
Agence France-Presse
\nUnited Nations<\/p>\n
The United Nations confirmed on Tuesday it had offered former
\nU.S. president Bill Clinton the job of UN special envoy for
\ntsunami relief, and that Clinton had accepted.<\/p>\n
\"The Secretary General has indeed offered to former U.S.
\npresident Bill Clinton the position of his Special Envoy for
\nTsunami-affected Countries and president Clinton has accepted,\" a
\nspokesman for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a brief
\nstatement.<\/p>\n
\"The Secretary General is confident that president Clinton
\nwill bring energy, dynamism and focus to the task of sustaining
\nworld interest in the vital recovery and reconstruction phase
\nfollowing the tsunami disaster that hit South Asia on Dec. 26
\n2004,\" the statement said.<\/p>\n
\"He (Annan) believes that no one could possibly be better
\nqualified for this task,\" it added.<\/p>\n
Annan and Clinton will make a joint appearance later this
\nmonth to provide more details on Clinton's appointment when the
\nformer U.S. leader returns from a visit to the region with former
\nU.S. president George Bush.<\/p>\n
Clinton and his predecessor Bush have already been asked by
\ncurrent U.S. President George W. Bush to lead private U.S.
\nfundraising efforts for the victims of the Dec. 26 killer waves,
\nwhich left more than 289,000 people dead.<\/p>\n
Annan's spokesman, Fred Eckhard said Annan wanted to name a
\nspecial envoy \"to keep world attention focused on the clean up
\nand the reconstruction.\"<\/p>\n
Earlier on Tuesday, Eckhard said the United Nations also
\nwanted to \"capitalize on the openings that it has afforded both
\nIndonesia and Sri Lanka to make political advances with the rebel
\nmovements in those two countries.\" --AFP<\/p>",
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