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Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary General

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The Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General is a department of the United Nations that provides information to the news media regarding the activities of the U.N. as a whole.

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Role

The department is in charge of managing media relations on behalf of:

  • The Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Other senior U.N. officials

    • Officers

  • Stéphane Dujarric - Spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
  • Eduardo del Buey - Deputy Spokesperson
  • Farhan Haq - Associate Spokesperson
  • Morana Song - Associate Spokesperson
  • Eri Kaneko - Associate Spokesperson
  • Jerome Bernard - Associate Spokesperson
  • Vannina Maestracci - Associate Spokesperson

    • Controversy

    In 2012, the official United Nations Twitter account posted an erroneous tweet, implying that the U.N. Secretary-General supports a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The tweet was later found to have been written by spokesperson Nancy Groves, who attributed it to a "terrible typo".

    According to Reuters, the U.N. spokesperson post is considered to be a "dream job", but it requires taking into account the concerns of the 192 nations and "competing for the Secretary-General’s attention".

    References

    Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Wikipedia
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