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SFA-AGR-495-07                                                                                                                                                       27 June 2007


UN MILITARY ADVISER ARRIVING FOR UN LOGISTICS COURSE

 

27 June 2007 — The Department of Foreign Affairs has announced that United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has designated the UN Military Adviser, Maj. Gen. Per Arne Five of Norway, to represent him in the closing ceremonies for the ongoing UN Logistics Planners Course (UNLPC) that has been taking place at Clark Field, Pampanga since 18 June 2007.

 

The DFA Office of United Nations and Other International Organizations (DFA-UNIO) said Major General Five will also represent the Secretary General in the courtesy call of the participants in the course on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Malacañang on 29 June.

 

Major General Five will arrive from New York on Wednesday night and will address the closing ceremonies of the two-week UNLPC at the Holiday Inn Clark. He will be joining Interior and Local Governments Secretary Ronaldo Puno, who will be the guest of honor and speaker.

 

Major General Five is the third highest-ranking UN peacekeeping official and is next to the Secretary General and the Undersecretary General when it comes to peacekeeping matters. He oversees the military component of UN peacekeeping operations. He is the highest-ranking official of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to visit the Philippines .

 

DFA-UNIO said the UNLPC, which is being pilot tested in the Philippines , is intended to increase the capacity of UN Member States to plan and manage the administrative and logistics aspects of their future involvement in UN peace operations.

 

According to the course director, Lt. Col. Rafael Barbieri, the UNLPC program covers the United Nations logistics procedures and the troop and police contributing countries' internal procedures.

 

Representatives from Australia , Bangladesh , El Salvador , India , Indonesia , Korea , Kyrgyzstan , Malaysia , Mongolia , Nepal , New Zealand , Pakistan , Samoa , Singapore , Sri Lanka , Thailand , and Vietnam are participating in the course.

 

The Philippines is represented by officers from the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of National Defense, the Department of the Interior and Local Governments, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.  END

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