[kictanet] Kenya elected to top UN positition

[Wambua, Christopher]

Listers,

 

KENYAN WINS TOP UN POSITION

 

A Kenyan was today elected Director General of the Universal Postal
Union, a United Nations body responsible for the development of postal
business in the world.

 

Amb. Bishir Hussein becomes the highest placed Kenyan in the UN system.
He is the first Kenyan to head a United Nations body. He will serve for
a period of four years.

 

In an election held in Doha, Qatar, Amb. Hussein beat his sole
challenger for the post, Dr. Serrena Bassini Casco, from Uruguay, by 87
votes to her 72 to claim the coveted post. The position of Deputy
Director General went to Mr. Pascal-Thierry Clivers of Switzerland, who
beat Mr. Denis Delehanty of the United States of America.

 

Amb. Hussein is a former Postmaster General of the Postal Corporation of
Kenya. He has also served as Kenya's ambassador to Abu Dhabi. Before his
election today, Amb. Hussein had been serving as chairman of the Council
of Administration of the UPU. He was elected to the post in 2008.

 

Kenya's high powered delegation to the 25th UPU Congress that culminated
into the election was led by Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka. It included
Information and Communications Minister Samuel Poghisio, CCK Chairman,
Mr. Ben Gituku, CCK Director General, Mr. Francis Wangusi, Postal
Corporation of Kenya Chairman Cyrus Maina and PCK Postmaster General,
Dr. Enock Kinara, among others.

 

At the same time Kenya was also elected to serve in the Postal
Operations Council of the UPU for a period of four years.

 

 

Christopher Wambua

Manager/Communications

Consumer and Public Affairs Division 

Communications Commission of Kenya

P.O. Box 14448, NAIROBI 00800

KENYA

 

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