AL-Jafaari re-Elected Rapporteur for UN Committee on Colonialism

 NEWYORK, (ST) _ The Special Committee on the status of implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples elected Dr. Bashar Jaafari, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN unanimously as its rapporteur.

Al-Jaafari election as a Rapporteur of the Committee for 2013 was made during its meeting held Thursday morning at the UN Headquarters in New York in the presence of the UN Secretary-General.

Ecuador Permanent Representative was elected as a Chairman of the Committee and the Permanent Representatives of Sierra Leone and Cuba as deputies for the Chairman.

T. Fateh