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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Very good news indeed. <br>
Congratulations to Amb. Hussein.<br>
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Best<br>
Alice<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Listers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span
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"Times New Roman","serif"">KENYAN
WINS TOP UN POSITION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Kenya’s
high powered delegation to the 25<sup>th</sup> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">At
the same time Kenya was also elected to serve in the Postal
Operations Council
of the UPU for a period of four years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif"">Christopher
Wambua<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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MS","sans-serif"">Manager/Communications<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif"">Consumer
and Public Affairs Division <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif"">Communications
Commission of Kenya<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif"">P.O.
Box 14448, NAIROBI 00800<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet
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