Albert Gerard "Bert" Koenders has been the Special
Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) in Cote d’Ivoire since August
2011. He is now being shifted from Abidjan to Bamako to lead the new
peacekeeping mission in Mali ( MINUSMA). He is very new to peacekeeping and to
the African realities, as he spent his time in Dutch politics and as
Development Co-operation Minister.
And he has a major job ahead of him. Which will be further
complicated because there is a very serious rivalry between two UN departments
regarding the Malian agenda: the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) believes
that the political transition should be the priority objective, whilst DPKO,
the Department of Peacekeeping Operations is going to take the lead and push
for the military operations and internal security to be at the forefront.
Interesting, isn't it?
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