UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Siddharth Chatterjee of India has been appointed as the new resident coordinator in China, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.
"His appointment follows confirmation from the host government, where he will take up his post in the middle of January of next year," Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said at the regular press briefing.
Chatterjee had been the resident coordinator in Kenya before he received the new appointment.
Dujarric said that resident coordinators are UN secretary general's representatives for development at the country level. They lead UN teams supporting countries to recover better from the COVID-19 pandemic through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
"We proudly remain with full gender parity and North South balance among all of our resident coordinators, who cover 162 countries and territories," said the spokesman. Enditem
