NEW YORK – Kenzo Oshima, a Japanese career diplomat, has been appointed as U.N. undersecretary general in charge of humanitarian affairs and relief operations, the United Nations announced Wednesday.
Oshima, 57, who currently oversees international peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance operations from the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo, will assume his new post in mid-January.
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