Kofi Annan (left) and Jan Eliasson
Eliasson Special Envoy to Sudan
With less than two weeks left in office, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has appointed Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson as a special envoy to Sudan.
Eliasson, a former president of the General Assembly and Swedish Foreign Minister, will serve during the transition to Kofi Annan’s incoming successor, Ban Ki-moon of South Korea.
Jan Eliasson and Kofi Annan’s top aide Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, who has been sent to Khartoum, will try to convince the Sudanese government to accept a greatly strengthened peacekeeping force in the troubled Darfur province.
