U.N. appoints Ecuadorian diplomat as envoy to Haiti


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  • Thursday, 02 Mar 2023

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo

(Reuters) - The United Nations has named Ecuadorian diplomat Maria Isabel Salvador as the organization's new Special Representative to Haiti and head of the U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), the international body said in a statement on Wednesday.

Salvador, a former foreign minister and ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), is set to take over from Helen La Lime, the U.N. said.

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