mercredi 20 janvier 2010

Changement au bureau


En attendant des posts un peu plus personnels après le long silence des fêtes de Noël, voici un extrait du communiqué de presse (en anglais bien sûr qui est la langue de travail ici) annonçant le changement de chef du bureau où je travaille.
La cérémonie fut simple et sobre au Caire avec quelques journalistes locaux et le général commandant la mission.

The Change of Command Ceremony for the Liaison Office to Cairo (LOC), United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) will be held on 13 January 2010 at the World Trade Center in Cairo.
UNTSO was established in May 1948 to assist the United Nations Mediator and the Truce Commission in supervising the observance of the truce in Palestine. UNTSO performs various tasks entrusted to it by the Security Council, including the supervision of the General Armistice Agreements of 1949 and the observation of the ceasefire in the Suez Canal area and the Golan Heights following the Arab-Israeli war of June 1967. At present, UNTSO assists and cooperates with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on the Golan Heights in the Israel-Syria sector and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in the Israel-Lebanon sector. UNTSO maintains liaison offices in Beirut, Damascus and Ismailia.
The Liaison Office to Cairo (LOC) remains in Egypt at the request of the Egyptian government and operates under the command of UNTSO Headquarters. The area of responsibility includes Cairo and the Sinai Peninsula from Taba to Sharm El Sheikh. The mission of the liaison office in Ismailia is to represent and sustain a visible UNTSO presence in Egypt, through liaison meetings with Egyptian government organizations; embassies of Armistice parties, UN permanent member countries, UN troop contributing countries; and UN offices located in Cairo on behalf of UNTSO Chief of Staff / Head of Mission (COS / HOM). The military observers are unarmed and carry out their tasks under the principle of impartiality. They operate with the consent of the parties and are dependent on the cooperation of the parties for their effectiveness.