[ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH «ALBEUROPA»} NEWS: UNMIK: Anthony Welch Named Mitrovica Regional Administrator (Press Release, 26 October 2000)

[Wolfgang Plarre]

http://www.un.org/peace/kosovo/press/templ.pr.399.html

UNITED NATIONS  NATIONS UNIES
UNMIK
UNITED NATIONS INTERIM ADMINISTRATION  MISSION IN KOSOVO

Press Release
26 October 2000
UNMIK/PR/399

Anthony Welch Named Mitrovica Regional Administrator

SRSG Bernard Kouchner has named Anthony Welch of the UK as the new
Regional Administrator for Mitrovica.
     When Welch, a retired British Army Brigadier, takes up his post
with UNMIK in November, he brings with him more than five years
experience of working in the Balkans.
     He replaces William L. Nash, the longest-serving Regional
Administrator for Mitrovica, who will end his UNMIK assignment in
mid-November and return to his job at the National Democratic Institute
for Foreign Affairs, in Washington, D.C. Nash, himself a former Major
General in the U.S. Army, took up the post in April, 2000.
     Welch's immediate previous position was head of the UK Department
for International Development (DFID) mission to Kosovo and Macedonia
from June 1999 - July 2000, overseeing British government donor support
to the region worth some $181 million. Prior to that, Mr. Welch was
employed by DFID as an advisor on the restructuring and democratisation
of the Armed Forces and National Security Agencies to various foreign
governments in Africa and in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Albania.
     From December 1996 to November 1998 he worked with the OSCE on the
planning and implementation of municipal, general and parliamentary
elections in such countries as Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Montenegro
and Serbia. On behalf of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, he
led an Albanian political delegation during a study of the 1997 general
election in the United Kingdom.
     Mr. Welch headed the European Community's Monitor Mission in
Albania from March 1995 - December 1996. The Mission's 23 international
monitors reported to Brussels on the situation in the region with regard
to political, military, economic, humanitarian and infrastructure
developments. He had particular responsibility for monitoring relations
between Albania, Macedonia and Yugoslavia.
     Earlier, in 1994, when the post of UN Special Representative of the
UN Secretary-General (SRSG) was created for UNPROFOR, he acted as
Executive Assistant to the then incumbents - Thorvald Stoltenberg and
Yashusi Akashi - and, as chief of policy planning, also was the UN
delegate to the NATO Ad Hoc Planning Committee on the Balkans.
     Born in Hamilton, New Zealand, Mr. Welch was commissioned into the
British army in 1969 and served for 10 years with the 3rd Commando
Brigade Royal Marines, including commanding the Commando Ordnance
Squadron during the Falkland Island conflict with Argentina. He was
promoted to Colonel in 1988 and during the Gulf war (1990-1991) was
principal Logistic Staff Planner for British Land Forces and acted as
the senior briefer to Allied Commanders, Ministers and parliamentary
Committees during Operation Desert Storm. He was promoted to Brigadier
at the end of the war and returned to Britain as commander of the
Donnington Garrison in Shropshire. He retired from the Army in 1994. 

For information only-not an official record 
Contact UNMIK Press and Information Office-(381-38) 500-223, 501-396.


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