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UK special representative on Middle East and special projects
With the agreement of the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary has today appointed Michael C. Williams to be the UK Special Representative on Middle East and Special Projects.
Dr. Williams, who is currently serving as the UN Secretary General's Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and his Personal Representative to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, will start his new role in September. He will be based in the FCO, and will report to the Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister.
His responsibilities will cover the wider Middle East including Iraq and Iran in addition to the Middle East Peace Process.
In the 1990s he served with the UN in Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, Geneva and New York. Between 2000 and 2005, he served in the FCO as the Special Adviser to two Foreign Secretaries, Robin Cook and Jack Straw. In July 2005 he was appointed Director of Asia in the UN's Department of Political Affairs in New York. In July 2006 he was promoted to Assistant Secretary-General and appointed Special Adviser on the Middle East to Kofi Annan. He has played a critical role in the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1701 which brought the Israel-Lebanon war to a conclusion.
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