UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Mark Malloch Brown, the British head of the U.N. Development Program, was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan late on Friday to lead the world body's reconstruction projects in Afghanistan.
He is to coordinate early recovery efforts for Afghanistan with the World Bank, where he was once a vice president, the Asia Development Bank, the European Commission and other donor organizations and voluntary groups, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said.
Malloch Brown reports for this project to Lakhdar Brahimi, the former Algerian foreign minister who is the Annan's special envoy for Afghanistan.
Other leading members of the Brahimi's team are Francesc Vendrell, a senior U.N. official from Spain who is the chief political affairs officer for Afghanistan, and Michael Sackett, an Australian, who coordinates emergency relief aid in the region.