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From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>


Posted on Mon, Jan. 01, 2007

Latin America & Caribbean BriefsFrom Miami Herald Wire Services

HAITI


INCOMING U.N. HEAD NAMES TWO OFFICIALS

Incoming U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday appointed veteran Indian diplomat Vijay Nambiar as his chief of staff and award-winning Haitian journalist Michele Montas as his spokeswoman.

The appointments were the first by Ban, who officially takes the reins of the United Nations today.

Montas began reporting for Radio Haiti-Inter in the early 1970s with her husband, Jean Dominique, where the two exposed human rights abuses, political corruption and state-sponsored violence in Haiti.

Between 1980 and 1994, the radio station was attacked six times and Montas and her husband were forced into exile twice. Dominique was assassinated on April 3, 2000, as he walked into the station.

Montas continued to work at the station, but after her bodyguard was fatally shot on Christmas Day 2002 and threats continued, she closed the station in February 2003 and fled to New York.

She served as spokeswoman for the U.N. General Assembly in 2003 and is currently the head of the French unit of U.N. Radio


Incoming U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday appointed veteran Indian diplomat Vijay Nambiar as his chief of staff and award-winning Haitian journalist Michele Montas as his spokeswoman.

The appointments were the first by Ban, who officially takes the reins of the United Nations today.

Montas began reporting for Radio Haiti-Inter in the early 1970s with her husband, Jean Dominique, where the two exposed human rights abuses, political corruption and state-sponsored violence in Haiti.

Between 1980 and 1994, the radio station was attacked six times and Montas and her husband were forced into exile twice. Dominique was assassinated on April 3, 2000, as he walked into the station.

Montas continued to work at the station, but after her bodyguard was fatally shot on Christmas Day 2002 and threats continued, she closed the station in February 2003 and fled to New York.

She served as spokeswoman for the U.N. General Assembly in 2003 and is currently the head of the French unit of U.N. Radio

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