UNITED NATIONS, June 8 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday announced the appointment of Major General Per Lodin of Sweden as chief military observer and head of UN Mission for the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan, known as UNMOGIP.
Major General Lodin succeeds Major General Delali Johnson Sakyi of Ghana, who will have completed his two-year assignment in July of this year. "The secretary-general is grateful to Major General Sakyi for his contribution to UN peacekeeping," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here.
Major General Lodin has had a distinguished military career in the Swedish Army since 1978.
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