{"id":81995,"date":"2013-05-16T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/05\/mukhisa-kituyi-of-kenya-nominated-to-be-new-head-of-unctad\/"},"modified":"2013-05-16T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T12:28:12","slug":"mukhisa-kituyi-of-kenya-nominated-to-be-new-head-of-unctad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/05\/16\/mukhisa-kituyi-of-kenya-nominated-to-be-new-head-of-unctad\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukhisa Kituyi Of Kenya Nominated To Be New Head Of UNCTAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"newsimage\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/34c6240x_mg_gkb4eqp11x_unctad.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location='\/GhanaHome\/image_preview.asp?which=1&amp;menu_id=1&amp;id=NDY0MTQ1';\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">                    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Geneva, 16 May 2013 &#8211; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has nominated Mukhisa Kituyi of Kenya to serve as Secretary-General of UNCTAD for a term of four years beginning 1 September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kituyi is a former member of the Kenyan Parliament and a former Minister of Commerce and Industry of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The nomination will go to the UN General Assembly for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, Mr. Kituyi will succeed Supachai Panitchpakdi of Thailand, who assumed the post on 1 September 2005 and was reappointed in 2009.  Mr. Supachai will conclude his second four-year term of office on 31 August.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;\n\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Geneva, 16 May 2013 &#8211; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has nominated Mukhisa Kituyi of Kenya to serve as Secretary-General of UNCTAD for a term of four years beginning 1 September 2013.Mr. Kituyi is a former member of the Kenyan Parliament and a former Minister of Commerce and Industry of Kenya.The nomination will go to the UN General Assembly for confirmation.If confirmed, Mr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}