UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has told the Security Council he plans to name former Irish President Mary Robinson as his envoy to Africa's Great Lakes region to oversee a peace deal aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Congo, diplomats said on Friday.
There were unlikely to be any objections to the appointment among the 15-member council, diplomats said. In addition to having been Ireland's president from 1990 to 1997, Robinson, 68, was the U.N. high commissioner for human rights from 1997 to 2002.