{"id":30182,"date":"2019-06-11T14:16:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=30182"},"modified":"2019-06-11T14:16:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:16:24","slug":"movses-abelian-of-armenia-appointed-united-nation-under-secretary-general-for-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=30182","title":{"rendered":"Movses Abelian of Armenia Appointed United Nation Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/massispost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/movses-abelian.jpg?resize=800%2C430&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NEW YORK \u2014 United Nations  Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has appointed Movses Abelian of  Armenia (as well as a national of Georgia), as the next  Under\u2011Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management.\u00a0  He will succeed Catherine Pollard of Guyana who has been appointed as  the Under\u2011Secretary\u2011General for Management Strategy, Policy and  Compliance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr.\u00a0Abelian is currently Assistant Secretary-General  for General Assembly and Conference Management.\u00a0 Prior to assuming this  position in\u00a02016, he was Director of the Security Council Affairs  Division in the Department of Political Affairs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He brings to the  position over 25\u00a0years of experience in conference and management  affairs, coupled with experience in peace and security issues, conflict  resolution, as well as extensive expertise leading, supporting and  managing complex portfolios and intergovernmental processes in the  United Nations system.\u00a0 Mr.\u00a0Abelian also has extensive experience in  management, including program planning and budget, having previously  worked as Secretary of the Administrative and Budgetary Committee of the  General Assembly\u00a0(Fifth Committee) and the Committee on Program and  Coordination at the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Prior to joining the United  Nations, Mr.\u00a0Abelian was the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of  the Republic of Armenia to the United Nations\u00a0(1998\u20112003) and Deputy  Permanent Representative\u00a0(1996\u20111998).\u00a0 Prior to joining the Foreign  Service of Armenia in\u00a01992, Mr.\u00a0Abelian worked in academia as an  Associate Professor at Yerevan State University.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr. Abelian was educated in Armenia, the Russian Federation and the United States.\u00a0 He is married and has two children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/massispost.com\/2019\/06\/movses-abelian-of-armenia-appointed-united-nation-under-secretary-general-for-general-assembly\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/massispost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has appointed Movses Abelian of Armenia (as well as a national of Georgia), as the next Under\u2011Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30183,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30182\/revisions\/30183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}